| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: back to a cooler surface. After that he investigated the
biscuits, tested them with a splinter of wood, and placed them
aside under cover of a damp cloth. Dick, after the manner of his
kind, stifled his interest and waited silently. "A different
woman to Molly. Siwash."
Dick nodded his understanding.
"Not so proud and wilful, but stick by a fellow through thick and
thin. Sling a paddle with the next and starve as contentedly as
Job. Go for'ard when the sloop's nose was more often under than
not, and take in sail like a man. Went prospecting once, up
Teslin way, past Surprise Lake and the Little Yellow-Head. Grub
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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 Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: proved poor that day, for there are lean days as well
as fat ones for even the greatest of the jungle hunters.
Oftentimes Tarzan went empty for more than a full sun,
and he had passed through entire moons during which he
had been but barely able to stave off starvation;
but such times were infrequent.
There once had been a period of sickness among the
grass-eaters which had left the plains almost bare of game
for several years, and again the great cats had increased
so rapidly and so overrun the country that their prey,
which was also Tarzan's, had been frightened off for a
 The Jungle Tales of Tarzan |