| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain: but they certainly would have none without him.
So Wilson mooned around, thinking, thinking, guessing, guessing,
day and night, and arriving nowhere. Whenever he ran
across a girl or a woman he was not acquainted with, he got her
fingerprints, on one pretext or another; and they always cost him
a sigh when he got home, for they never tallied with the finger
marks on the knife handle.
As to the mysterious girl, Tom swore he knew no such girl,
and did not remember ever seeing a girl wearing a dress like the
one described by Wilson. He admitted that he did not always lock
his room, and that sometimes the servants forgot to lock the
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: without waiting to cast even a parting glance at the guard
he stepped quickly through the doorway and ran down
the steps into the courtyard. Looking neither to right nor to
left, and with a convincing air of self-confidence and im-
portant business, he walked directly to the big, gray ma-
chine that stood beside the little shed at the end of the
courtyard.
To crank it and leap to the driver's seat required but a
moment. The big car moved smoothly forward. A turn of
the steering wheel brought it around headed toward the
wide gates. Barney shifted to second speed, stepped on
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