| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: where the King and his royal allies lay peacefully
asleep, after their night of wine and dancing and song.
Had it not been for an incident which now befell,
the baronial army would doubtless have reached the
city without being detected, but it happened that the
evening before Henry had ordered a foraging party
to ride forth at daybreak, as provisions for both men
and beasts were low.
This party had scarcely left the city behind them ere
they fell into the hands of the baronial troops. Though
some few were killed or captured those who escaped
The Outlaw of Torn |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum: All, that is, except their leader. This Wheeler had stumbled against
another and fallen flat upon his back, and before he could get his
wheels under him to rise again, Tiktok had fastened his copper fingers
into the neck of the gorgeous jacket of his foe and held him fast.
"Tell your peo-ple to go a-way," commanded the machine.
The leader of the Wheelers hesitated to give this order, so Tiktok
shook him as a terrier dog does a rat, until the Wheeler's teeth
rattled together with a noise like hailstones on a window pane. Then,
as soon as the creature could get its breath, it shouted to the others
to roll away, which they immediately did.
"Now," said Tiktok, "you shall come with us and tell me what
Ozma of Oz |
