| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: [7] Lit. "not even in the same state or city."
Soc. "Has got"? but he may have got enemies?
Crit. Yes, I am afraid some people have got a great many.
Soc. Then shall we say that a man's enemies form part of his
possessions?
Crit. A comic notion indeed! that some one should be good enough to
add to my stock of enemies, and that in addition he should be paid for
his kind services.
Soc. Because, you know, we agreed that a man's estate was identical
with his possessions?
Crit. Yes, certainly! the good part of his possessions; but the evil
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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 Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: and European Universities, which evoked so much comment during
the next few years.
I did not at any time suffer from a lack
of learned contacts, for my case had a mild celebrity among the
psychologists of the period. I was lectured upon as a typical
example of secondary personality - even though I seemed to puzzle
the lecturers now and then with some bizarre symptoms or some
queer trace of carefully veiled mockery.
Of real friendliness,
however, I encountered little. Something in my aspect and speech
seemed to excite vague fears and aversions in every one I met,
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