| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: qualification of his new lodgings.
He opened the street door and slipped into his own room without
having seen or been seen by any one.
Fifteen minutes later he left the apartment again, but left it
such a changed man that nobody who had seen him go in would have
recognised him. Before he came out, however, he looked about
carefully to see whether there was any one in sight He came out
unseen and was just closing the main door behind him, when he met
the janitress.
"Were you looking for anybody in the house?" said the woman,
glancing sharply at the stranger, who answered in a slightly veiled
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: derfully alike in almost everything. And yet one
of them was very fond of Flaubert, while the other
preferred gin.
Pettit brought me his returned manuscripts, and
we looked them over together to find out why they
were not accepted. They seemed to me pretty fair
stories, written in a good style, and ended, as they
should, at the bottom of the last page.
They were well constructed and the events were
marshalled in orderly and logical sequence. But I
thought I detected a lack of living substance -- it
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