| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: broad Avenue to Prospect Park, swung through its
winding lanes, on through the streets of Brooklyn and
once more into the open road.
"Now for Long Beach and a good lunch!" he cried.
"I'll show you something--but you'll have to shut your
eyes to see it."
With a sudden bound, the car leaped into the air,
and shot through the sky with the hiss and shriek of a
demon.
The girl caught her breath and instinctively
gripped his arm.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson: LIGHT as the linnet on my way I start,
For all my pack I bear a chartered heart.
Forth on the world without a guide or chart,
Content to know, through all man's varying fates,
The eternal woman by the wayside waits.
COME, HERE IS ADIEU TO THE CITY
COME, here is adieu to the city
And hurrah for the country again.
The broad road lies before me
Watered with last night's rain.
The timbered country woos me
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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 Poems by Bronte Sisters: Death's axe, self-wielded, struck his root,
And lopped his desperate days.
You know the spot, where three black trees,
Lift up their branches fell,
And moaning, ceaseless as the seas,
Still seem, in every passing breeze,
The deed of blood to tell.
They named him mad, and laid his bones
Where holier ashes lie;
Yet doubt not that his spirit groans
In hell's eternity.
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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 Chance by Joseph Conrad: ship before I joined."
"He was much older than you. Twice your age. Perhaps more. His
hair was iron grey. Yes. Certainly more."
The low, repressed voice paused, but the old man did not move away.
He added: "Isn't it unusual?"
Mr. Powell was surprised not only by being engaged in conversation,
but also by its character. It might have been the suggestion of the
word uttered by this old man, but it was distinctly at that moment
that he became aware of something unusual not only in this encounter
but generally around him, about everybody, in the atmosphere. The
very sea, with short flashes of foam bursting out here and there in
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