| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis: delegation was a large, reddish, roundish man, but active. He took off his
coat, hurled his broad black felt hat on the ground, rolled up his sleeves,
climbed upon the sundial, spat, and bellowed:
"We'll tell the world, and the good lady who's giving the show this afternoon,
that the bonniest burg in this man's state is Galop de Vache. You boys can
talk about your zip, but jus' lemme murmur that old Galop has the largest
proportion of home-owning citizens in the state; and when folks own their
homes, they ain't starting labor-troubles, and they're raising kids instead of
raising hell! Galop de Vache! The town for homey folks! The town that eats
'em alive oh, Bosco! We'll--tell--the--world!"
The guests drove off; the garden shivered into quiet. But Mrs. Crosby Knowlton
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: initum consilii, cohortes quae in statione erant secum in eam partem
proficisci, ex reliquis duas in stationem succedere, reliquas armari et
confestim sese subsequi iussit. Cum paulo longius a castris processisset,
suos ab hostibus premi atque aegre sustinere et conferta legione ex
omnibus partibus tela coici animadvertit. Nam quod omni ex reliquis
partibus demesso frumento pars una erat reliqua, suspicati hostes huc
nostros esse venturos noctu in silvis delituerant; tum dispersos depositis
armis in metendo occupatos Subito adorti paucis interfectis reliquos
incertis ordinibus perturbaverant, simul equitatu atque essedis
circumdederant.
Genus hoc est ex essedis pugnae. Primo per omnes partes perequitant
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