| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: "But why didn't the stewardess--"
"Oh, my dear--the stewardess!" said Janey. "What would he have felt? And
besides...he might have wanted to leave a message...to--"
"Didn't he?" muttered Hammond. "Didn't he say anything?"
"No, darling, not a word!" She shook her head softly. "All the time I was
with him he was too weak...he was too weak even to move a finger..."
Janey was silent. But her words, so light, so soft, so chill, seemed to
hover in the air, to rain into his breast like snow.
The fire had gone red. Now it fell in with a sharp sound and the room was
colder. Cold crept up his arms. The room was huge, immense, glittering.
It filled his whole world. There was the great blind bed, with his coat
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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 Virginian by Owen Wister: in a Western girl, but with Miss Wood's raising nobody had a
right to expect it.
"Indeed!" snorted the great-aunt. "Well, he would be right, if I
had not had a good deal more to do with her 'raising' than ever
Lizzie had." And she went on with the letter.
I was starting in to die when she found me. I did not know
anything then, and she pulled me back from where I was half in
the next world. She did not know but what Indians would get her
too but I could not make her leave me. I am a heavy man one
hundred and seventy-three stripped when in full health. She
lifted me herself from the ground me helping scarce any for there
The Virginian |
