| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Oscar Wilde Miscellaneous by Oscar Wilde: Will you not buy them? Fifty thousand crowns
Would scarce repay me. But you, my Lord, shall have them
For forty thousand. Is that price too high?
Name your own price. I have a curious fancy
To see you in this wonder of the loom
Amidst the noble ladies of the court,
A flower among flowers.
They say, my lord,
These highborn dames do so affect your Grace
That where you go they throng like flies around you,
Each seeking for your favour.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: Then if you still are true, my love,
It will be our wedding day."
The dogs, bristling and growling, drew in closer to the firelight.
There was a monotonous crunch-crunch of webbed shoes, and between
each crunch the dragging forward of the heel of the shoe like the
sound of sifting sugar. Sigmund broke off from his song to hurl
oaths and firewood at the animals. Then the light was parted by a
fur-clad figure, and an Indian girl slipped out of the webs, threw
back the hood of her squirrel-skin parka, and stood in their
midst. Sigmund and the men on the bearskin greeted her as
"Sipsu," with the customary "Hello," but Hitchcock made room on
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