| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: room, where I catched my first breath since I'd left the barge.
Presently I heard plates rattling next door - there were only
folding doors between - and a cork drawn. "I tell you," some one
shouts with his mouth full, "it was all that sulky ass Sieyes' fault.
Only my speech to the Five Hundred saved the situation."
'"Did it save your coat?" says Talleyrand. "I hear they tore it
when they threw you out. Don't gasconade to me. You may be in
the road of victory, but you aren't there yet."
'Then I guessed t'other man was Boney. He stamped about and
swore at Talleyrand.
'"You forget yourself, Consul," says Talleyrand, "or rather
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: slowly, "And yet I would rather have Emil
grow up like that than like his two brothers.
We pay a high rent, too, though we pay differ-
ently. We grow hard and heavy here. We
don't move lightly and easily as you do, and
our minds get stiff. If the world were no wider
than my cornfields, if there were not something
beside this, I wouldn't feel that it was much
worth while to work. No, I would rather have
Emil like you than like them. I felt that as soon
as you came."
O Pioneers! |
