| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: found that, in consequence of something they had come, precisely,
to make up for or to have another scene about, he had gone off--
gone off just on purpose to make them feel it; on which they had
come together to Cocker's as to the nearest place; where they had
put in the three forms partly in order not to put in the one alone.
The two others in a manner, covered it, muffled it, passed it off.
Oh yes, she went all the way, and this was a specimen of how she
often went. She would know the hand again any time. It was as
handsome and as everything else as the woman herself. The woman
herself had, on learning his flight, pushed past Everard's servant
and into his room; she had written her missive at his table and
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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 Koran: comes a scum like that;- thus does God hit the truth and the
falsehood;- and as for the scum it is thrown off, and as for what
profits man it stays on the earth. Thus does God strike out parables!
For those who respond to their Lord is good; but those who respond
not to Him, had they all that is in the earth and the like thereof
as well, they would give it for a ransom; these shall have an evil
reckoning up! and their resort is hell,- an evil couch shall it be!
Is he who knows that naught but the truth is sent down upon thee
from thy Lord like him who is blind? Only those possessed of minds
will remember!
Those who fulfil God's covenant and break not the compact, and those
 The Koran |