| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: unexpected turn of everts. To wake to the necessity of
action, to postpone perforce the fruitless contemplation of
his private grievance, was cause enough for gratitude, even
if the small adventure in which he found himself involved
had not, on its own merits, roused an instinctive curiosity
to see it through.
When he and his companion, the night before, had reached the
Farlows' door in the rue de la Chaise, it was only to find,
after repeated assaults on its panels, that the Farlows were
no longer there. They had moved away the week before, not
only from their apartment but from Paris; and Miss Viner's
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from King James Bible: the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of
the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of
Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom,
nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.
EZE 43:8 In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and
their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even
defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed:
wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.
EZE 43:9 Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of
their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for
ever.
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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 The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce: in three.
"Behold great Daubert's picture here on view --
Taken from Life." If that description's true,
Grant, heavenly Powers, that I be taken, too.
Jali Hane
PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.
Cold pie was highly esteemed by the remains.
Rev. Dr. Mucker
(in a funeral sermon over a British nobleman)
Cold pie is a detestable
American comestible.
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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 King James Bible: her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them
uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the
land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go
down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain.
EZE 32:26 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves
are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword,
though they caused their terror in the land of the living.
EZE 32:27 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the
uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war:
and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities
shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in
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