| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: desk. "So you're the boss, eh?"
Lambert turned, showing a perfectly round face, ornamented by a dot
of a nose, two dots of eyes set rather close together, and a pursed
up mouth. His skin was very brown and shiny, and was so filled by
the flesh beneath as to take the appearance of having been inflated.
"Yes, I'm the boss," said he non-committally.
Orde dropped into a chair.
"Heinzman holds some notes due against our people in ten days," said
he. "I came in to see about their renewal. Can you attend to it?"
"Yes, I can attend to it," replied Lambert. He struck a bell; and
to the bookkeeper who answered he said: "John, bring me those
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: certainly come," she said hastily and wrathfully. "Why out of the
question? Why do you say it's out of the question?"
"Because it'll be going God knows where, by all sorts of roads
and to all sorts of hotels. You would be a hindrance to me," said
Levin, trying to be cool.
"Not at all. I don't want anything. Where you can go, I can. . ."
"Well, for one thing then, because this woman's there whom you
can't meet."
"I don't know and don't care to know who's there and what. I know
that my husband's brother is dying and my husband is going to
him, and I go with my husband too...."
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger: ``horizontal'' one. That is, each class must be divided into what are
termed Gifted, Bright, Average, Dull, Normal, and Defective. In the
past the helter-skelter crowding and over-crowding together of all
classes of children of approximately the same age, produced only a
dull leveling to mediocrity.[6]
An investigation of forty schools in New York City, typical of
hundreds of others, reveals deplorable conditions of overcrowding and
lack of sanitation.[7] The worst conditions are to be found in
locations the most densely populated. Thus of Public School No. 51,
located almost in the center of the notorious ``Hell's Kitchen''
section, we read: ``The play space which is provided is a mockery of
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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 The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine: strength in the slender figure and the thin face. This young man
somehow inspired confidence.
"Sent in that Colby story to us, didn't you?"
"Yes."
"Rotten story. Not half played up. Report to Jenkins at the City
Hall."
"Now?"
"Now. Think I meant next year?"
The city editor was already lost in the reading of more copy.
Inside of half an hour Jeff was at work on his first assignment.
Some derelict had committed suicide under the very shadow of the
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