| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare: And, wordless, so greets heaven for his success.
Far from the purpose of his coming hither,
He makes excuses for his being there.
No cloudy show of stormy blustering weather
Doth yet in his fair welkin once appear;
Till sable Night, mother of Dread and Fear,
Upon the world dim darkness doth display,
And in her vaulty prison stows the day.
For then is Tarquin brought unto his bed,
Intending weariness with heavy spright;
For, after supper, long he questioned
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: because my uncle hated the clatter--and a casual person or two
sitting about, projectors whose projects were being entertained.
Here and in a further room nearer the private apartments, my
uncle's correspondence underwent an exhaustive process of pruning
and digestion before it reached him. Then the two little rooms
in which my uncle talked; my magic uncle who had got the
investing public--to whom all things were possible. As one came
in we would find him squatting with his cigar up and an
expression of dubious beatitude upon his face, while some one
urged him to grow still richer by this or that.
"That'ju, George?" he used to say. "Come in. Here's a thing.
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