| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: With a scream, Taug leaped to his feet. His frenzied
"Kreeg-ahs!" brought the terrified tribe screaming and
chattering toward him.
"Look!" cried Taug, pointing at the moon. "Look! It
is as Tarzan said. Numa has sprung through the fires
and is devouring Goro. You called Tarzan names and
drove him from the tribe; now see how wise he was.
Let one of you who hated Tarzan go to Goro's aid.
See the eyes in the dark jungle all about Goro. He is
in danger and none can help him--none except Tarzan.
Soon Goro will be devoured by Numa and we shall have no
The Jungle Tales of Tarzan |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: look in at the windows of small eating-shops, transported
bodily from Genoa or Naples, with their macaroni, and chianti
flasks, and portraits of Garibaldi, and coloured political
caricatures; or (entering in) hold high debate with some
ear-ringed fisher of the bay as to the designs of "Mr. Owstria"
and "Mr. Rooshia." I was often to be observed (had there been
any to observe me) in that dis-peopled, hill-side solitude of
Little Mexico, with its crazy wooden houses, endless crazy
wooden stairs, and perilous mountain goat-paths in the sand.
Chinatown by a thousand eccentricities drew and held me; I
could never have enough of its ambiguous, interracial
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