| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from U. S. Project Trinity Report by Carl Maag and Steve Rohrer: bombing range and observed the shot from a distance of 19 to 29
kilometers. Among those observers was a Navy captain who was also the
MED Chief of Ordnance (6; 12; 13).
2.3 ACTIVITIES AFTER 16 JULY 1945
On 17, 18, and 19 July, all personnel and visitors had to receive
permission to approach ground zero from the "Going-in Board." On
these three days, 21 groups were authorized to go beyond the Broadway
roadblocks. Most of those who sought this authorization were
scientists and military support personnel whose job required that they
work near ground zero. Except for a group of two military men and
three civilians who went to ground zero on 16 and 17 July and a group
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: and they had nothing to add to the simple description `fifty
cases of common earth', except that the boxes were `main
and mortal heavy', and that shifting them was dry work.
One of them added that it was hard lines that there wasn't
any gentleman `such like as like yourself, squire', to show
some sort of appreciation of their efforts in a liquid form.
Another put in a rider that the thirst then generated was such
that even the time which had elapsed had not completely allayed it.
Needless to add, I took care before leaving to lift,
forever and adequately, this source of reproach.
30 September.--The station master was good enough to give me a line to his
Dracula |
| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Commission in Lunacy by Honore de Balzac: was the first thing to show the results of the malady; and that its
effete state leaves M. the Marquis d'Espard exposed to all the perils
of his incompetency, as is proved by the following facts:
" 'For a long time all the income accruing from M. d'Espard's estates
are paid, without any reasonable cause, or even temporary advantage,
into the hands of an old woman, whose repulsive ugliness is generally
remarked on, named Madame Jeanrenaud, living sometimes in Paris, Rue
de la Vrilliere, No. 8, sometimes at Villeparisis, near Claye, in the
Department of Seine et Marne, and for the benefit of her son, aged
thirty-six, an officer in the ex-Imperial Guards, whom the Marquis
d'Espard has placed by his influence in the King's Guards, as Major in
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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 Edingburgh Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson: sketched. How they are all tilted by the inclination of
the ground, how each stands out in delicate relief
against the rest, what manifold detail, and play of sun
and shadow, animate and accentuate the picture, is a
matter for a person on the spot, and turning swiftly on
his heels, to grasp and bind together in one
comprehensive look. It is the character of such a
prospect, to be full of change and of things moving. The
multiplicity embarrasses the eye; and the mind, among so
much, suffers itself to grow absorbed with single points.
You remark a tree in a hedgerow, or follow a cart along a
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