| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: more morning. The world on which I reopened my eyes swam
strangely up and down; the jewels in the bag that lay beside
me chinked together ceaselessly; the clock and the barometer
wagged to and fro like pendulums; and overhead, seamen were
singing out at their work, and coils of rope clattering and
thumping on the deck. Yet it was long before I had divined
that I was at sea; long before I had recalled, one after
another, the tragical, mysterious, and inexplicable events
that had brought me where was.
When I had done so, I thrust the jewels, which I was
surprised to find had been respected, into the bosom of my
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum: "Goodness me!" returned the hen, in a puzzled tone; "how queer you
are, Dorothy! Live things are much fresher and more wholesome than
dead ones, and you humans eat all sorts of dead creatures."
"We don't!" said Dorothy.
"You do, indeed," answered Billina. "You eat lambs and sheep and cows
and pigs and even chickens."
"But we cook 'em," said Dorothy, triumphantly.
"What difference does that make?"
"A good deal," said the girl, in a graver tone. "I can't just 'splain
the diff'rence, but it's there. And, anyhow, we never eat such
dreadful things as BUGS."
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