| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Damaged Goods by Upton Sinclair: from his mind. Worst of all, he could not forget the description
of the first symptom of the disease, which seemed to correspond
exactly with his own. So at last he made up his mind he must
ascertain definitely the truth about his condition.
He began to think over plans for seeing a doctor. He had heard
somewhere a story about a young fellow who had fallen into the
hands of a quack, and been ruined forever. So he decided that he
would consult only the best authority.
He got the names of the best-known works on the subject from a
bookstore, and found that the author of one of these books was
practicing in Paris as a specialist. Two or three days elapsed
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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 Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: he dropped lightly to the ground and moved stealthily out into
the open.
The rising moon, just topping the eastern cliffs, cast its
bright rays upon the long stretch of open garden beneath the
wall. And, too, it picked out in clear relief for any curious
eyes that chanced to be cast in that direction, the figure of the
giant ape-man moving across the clearing. It was only chance,
of course, that a great lion hunting at the edge of the forest
saw the figure of the man halfway between the forest and the
wall. Suddenly there broke upon Tarzan's ears a menacing
sound. It was not the roar of a hungry lion, but the roar of
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