The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: of the first stage of our journey.
We rode all night and all the following day with only a
few short rests. On the second night both we and our animals
were completely fagged, and so we lay down upon the moss
and slept for some five or six hours, taking up the journey
once more before daylight. All the following day we rode,
and when, late in the afternoon we had sighted no distant
trees, the mark of the great waterways throughout all Barsoom,
the terrible truth flashed upon us--we were lost.
Evidently we had circled, but which way it was difficult
to say, nor did it seem possible with the sun to guide us by
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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 Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: and he had used tobacco moderately since he was sixteen. But
now, strangely, he felt a disgust at the idea of stimulants. He
did not understand clearly what he felt. There was that vague
idea of something wild in his blood, something that made him
fear himself.
Euchre wagged his old head sympathetically. "Reckon you feel a
little sick. When it comes to shootin' I run. What's your age?"
"I'm twenty-three," replied Duane.
Euchre showed surprise. "You're only a boy! I thought you
thirty anyways. Buck, I heard what you told Bland, an' puttin'
thet with my own figgerin', I reckon you're no criminal yet.
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