| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: by jealousy, said something spiteful and went her way,
with pinched lips.
Gladys proceeded toward the avenue. Her eyes now
sparkled like jagerfonteins. A rosy bloom visited her
cheeks; a triumphant, subtle, vivifying, smile transfigured
her face. She was beautiful. Could the beauty editor
have seen her then! There was something in her answer
in the paper, I believe, about cultivating kind feelings
toward others in order to make plain features attractive.
The labour leader against whom the paper's solemn
and weighty editorial injunction was laid was the father
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: bleeding, and ached with a sharp pain. Considering the thickness of
his heavy glove, Gale was of the opinion that so to bruise his hand
he must have struck Rojas a powerful blow. He remembered that for
him to give or take a blow had been nothing. This blow to Rojas,
however, had been a different matter. The hot wrath which had been
his motive was not puzzling; but the effect on him after he had
cooled off, a subtle difference, something puzzled and eluded him.
The more it baffled him the more he pondered. All those wandering
months of his had been filled with dissatisfaction, yet he had been
too apathetic to understand himself. So he had not been much of
a person to try.. Perhaps it had not been the blow to Rojas any
Desert Gold |
