| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: intended electrification of Moscow by a station using turf
fuel.
"That," he said, "is one of the plans which, in spite of the
war, has gone a very long way towards completion. We
have built the station in the Ryezan Government, on the
Shadul peat mosses, about 110 versts from Moscow.
Before the end of May that station should be actually at
work. (It was completed, opened and partially destroyed by
a gigantic fire.) Another station at Kashira in the Tula
Government (on the Oka), using the small coal produced
in the Moscow coalfields, will be at work before the autumn.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: lower lip between her teeth, in fear and excitement.
The man looked down in silence at the tense phallos, that did not
change.--'Ay!' he said at last, in a little voice. 'Ay ma lad! tha're
theer right enough. Yi, tha mun rear thy head! Theer on thy own, eh?
an' ta'es no count O' nob'dy! Tha ma'es nowt O' me, John Thomas. Art
boss? of me? Eh well, tha're more cocky than me, an' tha says less.
John Thomas! Dost want HER? Dost want my lady Jane? Tha's dipped me in
again, tha hast. Ay, an' tha comes up smilin'.--Ax 'er then! Ax lady
Jane! Say: Lift up your heads, O ye gates, that the king of glory may
come in. Ay, th' cheek on thee! Cunt, that's what tha're after. Tell
lady Jane tha wants cunt. John Thomas, an' th' cunt O' lady Jane!--'
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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 Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis: January gale.
The room displayed a modest and pleasant color-scheme, after one of the best
standard designs of the decorator who "did the interiors" for most of the
speculative-builders' houses in Zenith. The walls were gray, the woodwork
white, the rug a serene blue; and very much like mahogany was the
furniture--the bureau with its great clear mirror, Mrs. Babbitt's
dressing-table with toilet-articles of almost solid silver, the plain twin
beds, between them a small table holding a standard electric bedside lamp, a
glass for water, and a standard bedside book with colored illustrations--what
particular book it was cannot be ascertained, since no one had ever opened it.
The mattresses were firm but not hard, triumphant modern mattresses which had
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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 The Europeans by Henry James: Gertrude said. "It must be very interesting to know her.
I don't feel as if I ever could."
"Ah, you will know her well; you will become great friends,"
Felix declared, as if this were the easiest thing in the world.
"She is very graceful," said Gertrude, looking after the Baroness,
suspended to her father's arm. It was a pleasure to her to say
that any one was graceful.
Felix had been looking about him. "And your little cousin,
of yesterday," he said, "who was so wonderfully pretty--
what has become of her?"
"She is in the parlor," Gertrude answered. "Yes, she is very pretty."
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