| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: no longer upon us'--those are your own words, and
still I am glad to call you friend."
The little emphasis she put upon the last word be-
spoke the finality of her decision that the Outlaw of
Torn could be no more than friend to her.
"It is best," he replied, relieved that, as he thought,
she felt no love for him now that she knew him for
what he really was. "Nothing good could come to such
as you, Joan, if the Devil of Torn could claim more of
you than friendship; and so I think that for your peace
of mind and for my own we will let it be as though you
The Outlaw of Torn |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Euthydemus by Plato: Dionysodorus blushed.
I turned to the other, and said, What do you think, Euthydemus? Does not
your omniscient brother appear to you to have made a mistake?
What, replied Dionysodorus in a moment; am I the brother of Euthydemus?
Thereupon I said, Please not to interrupt, my good friend, or prevent
Euthydemus from proving to me that I know the good to be unjust; such a
lesson you might at least allow me to learn.
You are running away, Socrates, said Dionysodorus, and refusing to answer.
No wonder, I said, for I am not a match for one of you, and a fortiori I
must run away from two. I am no Heracles; and even Heracles could not
fight against the Hydra, who was a she-Sophist, and had the wit to shoot up
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