| 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: present. How had he wandered there? and how long - oh,
heavens! how long had he been about it? He pulled out his
watch; and found that but three minutes had elapsed. It
seemed too bright a thing to be believed. He glanced at the
church clock; and sure enough, it marked an hour four minutes
faster than the watch.
Of all that he endured, M'Guire declares that pang was the
most desolate. Till then, he had had one friend, one
counsellor, in whom he plenarily trusted; by whose
advertisement, he numbered the minutes that remained to him
of life; on whose sure testimony, he could tell when the time
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Edition of The Ambassadors by Henry James: really almost the sense of having already acted his part. The
momentary relief--as if from the knowledge that nothing of THAT
at least could be undone--sprang from a particular cause, the
cause that had flashed into operation, in Miss Gostrey's box, with
direct apprehension, with amazed recognition, and that had been
concerned since then in every throb of his consciousness. What it
came to was that with an absolutely new quantity to deal with one
simply couldn't know. The new quantity was represented by the fact
that Chad had been made over. That was all; whatever it was it was
everything. Strether had never seen the thing so done before--it
was perhaps a speciality of Paris. If one had been present at the
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