| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: might have played the bugle with more spirit than that strange
dragoon. And as this hypothesis of his became more certain, the
awful insolubility of why they should be left out there in the woods
with nobody to wind them up again when they ran down, and a growing
disquietude as to what might happen next, became too much for his
courage, and he turned tail, and fairly took to his heels. It might
have been a singing in his ears, but he fancies he was followed as he
ran by a peal of Titanic laughter. Nothing has ever transpired to
clear up the mystery; it may be they were automata; or it may be (and
this is the theory to which I lean myself) that this is all another
chapter of Heine's 'Gods in Exile'; that the upright old man with the
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Call of the Wild by Jack London: night of Manuel's treachery. No one saw him and Buck go off
through the orchard on what Buck imagined was merely a stroll.
And with the exception of a solitary man, no one saw them arrive
at the little flag station known as College Park. This man talked
with Manuel, and money chinked between them.
"You might wrap up the goods before you deliver 'm," the stranger
said gruffly, and Manuel doubled a piece of stout rope around
Buck's neck under the collar.
"Twist it, an' you'll choke 'm plentee," said Manuel, and the
stranger grunted a ready affirmative.
Buck had accepted the rope with quiet dignity. To be sure, it was
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