| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: expected it - Philip Rochester had fallen deeply in love with Helen
and, encouraged by her father, had pressed his suit with ardor.
Frequent quarrels between the two close friends had been the outcome,
and Jimmie had confided to Kent, before the latter left on the
business trip to Chicago from which he had returned that morning,
that the situation had become intolerable and he had notified
Rochester that he would no longer share his apartment with him, and
to look for other quarters as quickly as possible.
So buried was Kent in his thoughts that he never heard Sylvester's
knock, and it was not until the clerk stood at his elbow that he
awoke from his absorption.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from King James Bible: mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome:
but the noise of them that sing do I hear.
EXO 32:19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp,
that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and
he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
EXO 32:20 And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the
fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made
the children of Israel drink of it.
EXO 32:21 And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee,
that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?
EXO 32:22 And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou
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