| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: On seeing this, the inquisitive youths manifested with
rustic freedom their contempt for such paltry sport, and,
after a dissertation among themselves upon the disadvantages
of hawking, they returned to their occupations; one only of
the curious party, a stout, stubby, cheerful lad, having
demanded how it was that Monsieur, who, from his great
revenues, had it in his power to amuse himself so much
better, could be satisfied with such mean diversions.
"Do you not know," one of the standers-by replied, "that
Monsieur's principal amusement is to weary himself?"
The light-hearted boy shrugged his shoulders with a gesture
Ten Years Later |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: hidden under leather helmet and goggles, but the lower part of
his face was unprotected. He resembled a demon, so dark and
stone-hard and strangely grinning was he. All at once Madeline
realized how matchless, how wonderful a driver was this cowboy.
She divined that weakening could not have been possible to Link
Stevens. He was a cowboy, and he really was riding that car,
making it answer to his will, as it had been born in him to
master a horse. He had never driven to suit himself, had never
reached an all-satisfying speed until now. Beyond that his
motive was to save Stewart--to make Madeline happy. Life was
nothing to him. That fact gave him the superhuman nerve to face
The Light of Western Stars |
