| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: speaking or laughing, your voice is by far the loveliest and
strangest instrument I have ever listened to. And yet I repeat, it
is inappropriate."
"You mean that my nature doesn't correspond?"
He was just considering his reply, when their talk was abruptly
broken off by a huge and terrifying, but not very loud sound rising
up from the gulf directly underneath them. It was a low, grinding,
roaring thunder.
"The ground is rising under us!" cried Oceaxe.
"Shall we escape?"
She made no answer, but urged the shrowk's flight upward, at such a
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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 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: I see I was up a stump. I had to let on to get
choked with a chicken bone, so as to get time to think
how to get down again. Then I says:
"I mean he goes to our church regular when he's in
Sheffield. That's only in the summer time, when he
comes there to take the sea baths."
"Why, how you talk -- Sheffield ain't on the sea."
"Well, who said it was?"
"Why, you did."
"I DIDN'T nuther."
"You did!"
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