| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: he made his huge revolver spurt flame on flame.
I could not see the other men, but their uproarious mirth could have been
heard half a mile away. When it dawned upon Herky, he was so furious that
he spat at them like an angry cat and clicked his empty revolver.
Then Greaser lurched out of the door. I got a glimpse of him, and, for a
wonder, was actually sorry for him. He looked as if he had been through a
threshing-machine.
"Haw! haw! Ho! ho!" roared the merry lumbermen.
Then they trooped into the cabin. Buell headed the line, and Herky,
sullenly reloading his revolver, came last. At first they groped around in
the dim light, stumbling over everything. Part of the time they were in the
The Young Forester |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: to be alone here ... as far as a man can be alone over whom hangs
the shadow of a crime. He groaned aloud and hid his pale face in
his hands.
In his own distress he did not hear the deep sigh - which, just
above him on the edge of the knoll, broke from the breast of a woman
who was suffering scarcely less than he; he did not know that two
pair of sad eyes looked down upon him. And now into the eyes of the
watching woman there shot a gleam of terror. For Herbert Thorne had
taken a revolver from his pocket and laid it quietly beside him.
Then he took out a notebook and a pencil and placed them beside the
weapon. Then slowly, reluctantly, he opened one of the papers.
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