| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: in all these strangers' eyes. They paused there but to pass:
the blue-clad China-boy, the San Francisco magnate, the
mystery in the dust coat, the secret memoirs in tweed, the
ogling, well-shod lady with her troop of girls; they did but
flash and go; they were hull-down for us behind life's ocean,
and we but hailed their topsails on the line. Yet, out of
our great solitude of four and twenty mountain hours, we
thrilled to their momentary presence gauged and divined them,
loved and hated; and stood light-headed in that storm of
human electricity. Yes, like Piccadilly circus, this is also
one of life's crossing-places. Here I beheld one man,
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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 Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: of the dance where they had dropped it to watch their king
slay the foolish Tarmangani.
It was then that Go-lat raised his head and slowly crawled
to his feet. Tarzan approached him. "I am Tarzan of the
Apes," he cried. "Shall Tarzan dance the Dum-Dum with his
brothers now, or shall he kill first?"
Go-lat raised his bloodshot eyes to the face of the Tar-
mangani. "Kagoda!" he cried "Tarzan of the Apes will dance
the Dum-Dum with his brothers and Go-lat will dance with him!"
And then the girl in the tree saw the savage man leaping,
bending, and stamping with the savage apes in the ancient
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