| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: face showed white in the moonlight, like the face of a corpse. But it was a
corpse that knew its resurrection, for the man rose suddenly on one elbow and
gazed across at his hillside.
"Good night, Mr. Pocket," he called sleepily. "Good night."
He slept through the early gray of morning until the direct rays of the sun
smote his closed eyelids, when he awoke with a start and looked about him
until he had established the continuity of his existence and identified his
present self with the days previously lived.
To dress, he had merely to buckle on his shoes. He glanced at his fireplace
and at his hillside, wavered, but fought down the temptation and started the
fire.
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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 Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: poured into her responsive mind; but best of all she loved these
Western stars, for they were to have something to do with her
life, were somehow to influence her destiny.
For a few days the prevailing features of camp life for
Madeline's guests were sleep and rest. Dorothy Coombs slept
through twenty-four hours, and then was so difficult to awaken
that for a while her friends were alarmed. Helen almost fell
asleep while eating and talking. The men were more visibly
affected by the mountain air than the women. Castleton, however,
would not succumb to the strange drowsiness while he had a chance
to prowl around with a gun.
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