| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: "No, and yes," I answered. "When you are near me I have feelings similar to
those produced by dank warehouses, gloomy crypts, and deep mines. And as
sailors feel the loom of the land on dark nights, so I think I feel the loom
of your body. But it is all very vague and intangible."
Long we talked that last morning in his laboratory; and when I turned to go,
he put his unseen hand in mine with nervous grip, and said, "Now I shall
conquer the world!" And I could not dare to tell him of Paul Tichlorne's equal
success.
At home I found a note from Paul, asking me to come up immediately, and it was
high noon when I came spinning up the driveway on my wheel. Paul called me
from the tennis court, and I dismounted and went over. But the court was
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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 Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: patches in the roughly arched roof of the cavern I had no
difficulty in following him.
It was my first trip upon the bosom of Iss, and the things
I saw there will live forever in my memory.
Terrible as they were, they could not have commenced to
approximate the horrible conditions which must have obtained before
Tars Tarkas, the great green warrior, Xodar, the black dator, and
I brought the light of truth to the outer world and stopped the mad
rush of millions upon the voluntary pilgrimage to what they believed
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