| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum: walked close to Dorothy's side, and did not even bark in return.
"How long will it be," the child asked of the Tin Woodman,
"before we are out of the forest?"
"I cannot tell," was the answer, "for I have never been to the
Emerald City. But my father went there once, when I was a boy,
and he said it was a long journey through a dangerous country,
although nearer to the city where Oz dwells the country is beautiful.
But I am not afraid so long as I have my oil-can, and nothing can hurt
the Scarecrow, while you bear upon your forehead the mark of the
Good Witch's kiss, and that will protect you from harm."
"But Toto!" said the girl anxiously. "What will protect him?"
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: had very great doubts, since the large rough features on the wall
were hasty and careless, and wholly overshadowed by a crowd of
little companion shapes in the worst possible taste, with horns
and wings and claws and curling tails.
At last, having gained
all the information he was likely to gain in the taverns and public
places of Baharna, Carter hired a zebra and set out one morning
on the road by Yath's shore for those inland parts wherein towers
stony Ngranek. On his right were rolling hills and pleasant orchards
and neat little stone farmhouses, and he was much reminded of
those fertile fields that flank the Skai. By evening he was near
 The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |