The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: He would have had to look after her and he would have done it well.
Captain Anthony is a proper man. And it would have saved him from
the most foolish--"
He did not finish the phrase which certainly was turning bitter in
his mouth. Mr. Powell thought to himself: "There he goes again."
He laughed a little.
"I don't understand why you are so hard on the captain, Mr.
Franklin. I thought you were a great friend of his."
Mr. Franklin exclaimed at this. He was not hard on the captain.
Nothing was further from his thoughts. Friend! Of course he was a
good friend and a faithful servant. He begged Powell to understand
Chance |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: looking at the famous director of police.
"Come, strip!" said he of the Petite Rue Saint-Anne,
contemptuously.
"Why?" asked Collin. "There are ladies present; I deny nothing,
and surrender."
He paused, and looked round the room like an orator who is about
to overwhelm his audience.
"Take this down, Daddy Lachapelle," he went on, addressing a
little, white-haired old man who had seated himself at the end of
the table; and after drawing a printed form from the portfolio,
was proceeding to draw up a document. "I acknowledge myself to be
Father Goriot |