| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed by Edna Ferber: the news? What kind of a rotten cotton sportin' sheet is
that dub Callahan gettin' out? Who won to-day--Cubs or
Pirates? Norberg, you goat, who pinned that purple tie
on you?"
He was so like the Blackie we had always known that
we were at our ease immediately. The sun shone in at the
window, and some one laughed a little laugh somewhere
down the corridor, and Deming, who is Irish, plunged into
a droll description of a brand-new office boy who had
arrived that day.
"S'elp me, Black, the kid wears spectacles and a
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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 Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: your tailor?"
Cleggett was gratified to see a dull flush spread over the
other's face at the insult. Loge was silent a moment, and then
he said, dropping his bantering manner, which indeed sat rather
heavily upon him: "I don't know why you should want to shoot at
my scarfpin--or at me. I don't know why you should suddenly lay
a pistol between us. I don't, in short, know why we should sit
here paying each other left-handed compliments, when it was
merely my intention to make you a business proposition."
"I have been waiting to hear what you had to say to me," said
Cleggett, without being in the least thrown off his guard by the
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