| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: mountains. . . ."
"Well," said Amanda virtuously, "we will do something else."
He made no answer and her expression became profoundly thoughtful.
Of course this wandering must end. He had been growing impatient
for some time. But it was difficult, she perceived, to decide just
what to do with him. . . .
Benham picked up the thread of his musing.
He was seeing more and more clearly that all civilization was an
effort, and so far always an inadequate and very partially
successful effort. Always it had been aristocratic, aristocratic in
the sense that it was the work of minorities, who took power, who
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy: only of yourself? See how I've got to teave and slave,
and your poor weak father with his heart clogged like a
dripping-pan. I did hope for something to come out o'
this! To see what a pretty pair you and he made that
day when you drove away together four months ago! See
what he has given us--all, as we thought, because we
were his kin. But if he's not, it must have been done
because of his love for 'ee. And yet you've not got
him to marry!"
Get Alec d'Urberville in the mind to marry her! He
marry HER! On matrimony he had never once said a word.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman |
