| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery: at touch of that thin little hand in her own--a throb
of the maternity she had missed, perhaps. Its very
unaccustomedness and sweetness disturbed her. She
hastened to restore her sensations to their normal
calm by inculcating a moral.
"If you'll be a good girl you'll always be happy, Anne.
And you should never find it hard to say your prayers."
"Saying one's prayers isn't exactly the same thing as praying,"
said Anne meditatively. "But I'm going to imagine that I'm
the wind that is blowing up there in those tree tops. When I
get tired of the trees I'll imagine I'm gently waving down here
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: Acriter utrimque usque ad vesperum pugnatum est. Solis occasu suas copias
Ariovistus multis et inlatis et acceptis vulneribus in castra reduxit.
Cum ex captivis quaereret Caesar quam ob rem Ariovistus proelio non
decertaret, hanc reperiebat causam, quod apud Germanos ea consuetudo esset
ut matres familiae eorum sortibus et vaticinationibus declararent utrum
proelium committi ex usu esset necne; eas ita dicere: non esse fas
Germanos superare, si ante novam lunam proelio contendissent.
Postridie eius diei Caesar praesidio utrisque castris quod satis esse
visum est reliquit, alarios omnes in conspectu hostium pro castris
minoribus constituit, quod minus multitudine militum legionariorum pro
hostium numero valebat, ut ad speciem alariis uteretur; ipse triplici
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