| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: In the darkness of the blind.
R. L. S.
Letter: TO HENRY JAMES
APIA, DECEMBER 1893.
MY DEAR HENRY JAMES, - The mail has come upon me like an armed man
three days earlier than was expected; and the Lord help me! It is
impossible I should answer anybody the way they should be. Your
jubilation over CATRIONA did me good, and still more the subtlety
and truth of your remark on the starving of the visual sense in
that book. 'Tis true, and unless I make the greater effort - and
am, as a step to that, convinced of its necessity - it will be more
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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 Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain: Patsy is miserable about it; miserable on account of the neighbors,
and particularly miserable on account of her foreigners, of course;
so miserable on their account that she hasn't any room to worry
about her own little losses."
"It's the same old raider," said Wilson. "I suppose there isn't
any doubt about that."
"Constable Blake doesn't think so."
"No, you're wrong there," said Blake. "The other times it was a man;
there was plenty of signs of that, as we know, in the profession,
thought we never got hands on him; but this time it's a woman."
Wilson thought of the mysterious girl straight off. She was always
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