| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: been, if I may express myself so, put out of gear
mentally. But as soon as I had convinced my-
self that this stale, unprofitable world of my dis-
content contained such a thing as a command
to be seized, I recovered my powers of locomo-
tion.
It's a good step from the Officers' Home to the
Harbour Office; but with the magic word "Com-
mand" in my head I found myself suddenly on
the quay as if transported there in the twinkling of
an eye, before a portal of dressed white stone above
The Shadow Line |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: every expenditure and effort. The banking-house of which he was
the chief,
the brain, the will, the absolutely controlling hand, was so
admirably
organized that the details of its direction took but little time.
But the scores of other interests that radiated from it and were
dependent upon it--or perhaps it would be more accurate to say,
that contributed to its solidity and success--the many
investments,
industrial, political, benevolent, reformatory, ecclesiastical,
that had made the name of Weightman well known and potent in
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