| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde: ALGERNON. [Offering tea-cake.] I wish you would have tea-cake
instead. I don't like tea-cake.
JACK. Good heavens! I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in
his own garden.
ALGERNON. But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat
muffins.
JACK. I said it was perfectly heartless of you, under the
circumstances. That is a very different thing.
ALGERNON. That may be. But the muffins are the same. [He seizes
the muffin-dish from JACK.]
JACK. Algy, I wish to goodness you would go.
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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 Philosophy 4 by Owen Wister: there. Nevertheless, it was no failure; their inner convictions were
sure of fifty per cent at least, and this was all they asked of the
gods. "I was ripping about the ego," said Bertie. "I was rather
splendid myself," said Billy, "when I got going. And I gave him a huge
steer about memory." After lunch both retired to their beds and fell
into sweet oblivion until seven o'clock, when they rose and dined, and
after playing a little poker went to bed again pretty early.
Some six mornings later, when the Professor returned their papers to
them, their minds were washed almost as clear of Plato and Thales as
were their bodies of yesterday's dust. The dates and doctrines, hastily
memorized to rattle off upon the great occasion, lay only upon the
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