| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: again--whatever it is is inside the tent with him. He hears
it creeping close to him--now it is beside him. He closes
his eyes and waits for the mighty paw. Upon his upturned
face falls the gentle touch of a soft hand groping in the dark,
and then a girl's voice in a scarcely audible whisper
pronounces his name.
"Yes, it is I," he whispers in reply. "But in the name of
Heaven who are you?"
"The Ouled-Nail of Sisi Aissa," came the answer. While she
spoke Tarzan could feel her working about his bonds.
Occasionally the cold steel of a knife touched his flesh.
The Return of Tarzan |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: whether it set itself to weaving vapours, wisp after wisp
growing, trembling, fleeting, and fading in the blue.
The tangled, woody, and almost trackless foot-hills that
enclose the valley, shutting it off from Sonoma on the west,
and from Yolo on the east - rough as they were in outline,
dug out by winter streams, crowned by cliffy bluffs and
nodding pine trees - wore dwarfed into satellites by the bulk
and bearing of Mount Saint Helena. She over-towered them by
two-thirds of her own stature. She excelled them by the
boldness of her profile. Her great bald summit, clear of
trees and pasture, a cairn of quartz and cinnabar, rejected
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