| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: informed me that he was in the "artistic game," and I gathered later
that he was a photographer and had made the dim enlargement of Mrs.
Wilson's mother which hovered like an ectoplasm on the wall. His wife
was shrill, languid, handsome, and horrible. She told me with pride
that her husband had photographed her a hundred and twenty-seven times
since they had been married.
Mrs. Wilson had changed her costume some time before, and was now
attired in an elaborate afternoon dress of cream-colored chiffon, which
gave out a continual rustle as she swept about the room.
With the influence of the dress her personality had also undergone a
change. The intense vitality that had been so remarkable in the garage
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: what Alcide called, by anticipation, "the campaign of
revenge."
Meantime, Michael was standing ready, his eyes return-
ing the Emir's haughty glance, while his countenance as-
sumed an expression of intense scorn whenever he cast his
looks on Ivan Ogareff. He was prepared to die, yet not
a single sign of weakness escaped him.
The spectators, waiting around the square, as well as
Feofar-Khan's body-guard, to whom this execution was
only one of the attractions, were eagerly expecting it.
Then, their curiosity satisfied, they would rush off to enjoy
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