| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: "Splendid weather!" said Herr Erchardt, waving his spoon at the landlord,
who shrugged his shoulders.
"What! you don't call it splendid!"
"As you please," said the landlord, obviously scorning us.
"Such a beautiful walk," said Fraulein Elsa, making a free gift of her most
charming smile to the landlady.
"I never walk," said the landlady; "when I go to Mindelbau my man drives
me--I've more important things to do with my legs than walk them through
the dust!"
"I like these people," confessed Herr Langen to me. "I like them very,
very much. I think I shall take a room here for the whole summer."
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: over three hundred feet in height, and in places is almost perpendicular. We
believed the Major to be lying crushed and mangled on the rocks. Imagine our
frenzy of Joy when we saw the daring soldier and his horse dash out of the
bushes that skirt the base of the cliff, cross the creek, and come galloping
to the fort in safety."
"It was wonderful! Wonderful!" exclaimed Isaac, his eyes glistening. "No
wonder the Indians call you the 'Flying Chief.'"
"Had the Major not jumped into the clump of pine trees which grow thickly some
thirty feet below the summit he would not now be alive," said Colonel Zane. "I
am certain of that. Nevertheless that does not detract from the courage of his
deed. He had no time to pick out the best place to jump. He simply took his
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