| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: garret door, the quicker rush of feet, reached her from below.
"The White Moll! That's her! The White Moll!" She flung herself
flat down, wrenching both the automatic and the revolver from her
pocket. She understood now! That was Pinkie Bonn's voice. It was
the gang arriving to divide up the spoils, not the Sparrow and the
police. Her mind was racing now with lightning speed. If they got
her, they would get the Adventurer in there, too, before the police
could intervene. She must hold this little landing where she lay
now, hold those short, ladder-like steps that the oncoming footsteps
from below there had almost reached.
She fired once - twice - again; but high, over their heads, to check
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: Like motes and shadows see them move awhile;
Your ears unto your eyes I'll reconcile.
[Dumb Show.]
[Enter Pericles, at one door, with all his train; Cleon and
Dionyza, at the other. Cleon shows Pericles the tomb; whereat
Pericles makes lamentation, puts on sackcloth, and in a
mighty passion departs. Then exeunt Cleon and Dionyza.]
See how belief may suffer by foul show;
This borrow'd passion stands for true old woe;
And Pericles, in sorrow all devour'd,
With sighs shot through; and biggest tears o'ershower'd,
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne: other aperture of the whole city, - and with reason good and
cogent, Messieurs; for it comes against you without crying GARDE
D'EAU, and with such unpremeditable puffs, that of the few who
cross it with their hats on, not one in fifty but hazards two
livres and a half, which is its full worth.
The poor notary, just as he was passing by the sentry,
instinctively clapp'd his cane to the side of it, but in raising it
up, the point of his cane catching hold of the loop of the
sentinel's hat, hoisted it over the spikes of the ballustrade clear
into the Seine. -
- 'TIS AN ILL WIND, said a boatman, who catched it, WHICH BLOWS
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: CHAPTER XII
A single volume paramount: a code:
A master spirit: a determined road.
WORDSWORTH.
The next morning Robin Hood convened his foresters, and desired Little John,
for the baron's edification, to read over the laws of their forest society.
Little John read aloud with a stentorophonic voice.
"At a high court of foresters, held under the greenwood tree,
an hour after sun-rise, Robin Hood President, William Scarlet
Vice-President, Little John Secretary: the following articles,
moved by Friar Tuck in his capacity of Peer Spiritual,
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