The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed by Edna Ferber: a way to make your pet little political scribe sound like
a high school paper. I don't promise to stick. As soon
as I get on my feet again I'm going back to New York.
But not just yet. Meanwhile, I'm going to the highest
bidder.'
"Well, you know since Merkle left us we haven't had
a day when we wasn't scooped on some political guff. `I
guess we can use you--some place,' I says, tryin' not t'
look too anxious. If your ideas on salary can take a
slump be tween New York and Milwaukee. Our salaries
around here is more what is elegantly known as a stipend.
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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 The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: idea: it may be the weakness of a man of science, but yet,'
he cried, rising into some energy, 'I will never, I cannot if
I try, believe that my poor dynamite has had fair usage!'
'Five minutes!' said Somerset, glancing with horror at the
timepiece. 'If you do not instantly buckle to your bag, I
leave you.'
'A few necessaries,' returned Zero, 'only a few necessaries,
dear Somerset, and you behold me ready.'
He passed into the bedroom, and after an interval which
seemed to draw out into eternity for his unfortunate
companion, he returned, bearing in his hand an open Gladstone
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