| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: his prestige, and his enterprising intellect, must have always made
him influential with the consul: at this juncture he was
indispensable. Here was the deed to be done; here the man of
action. "Mr. Weber rested not," says Laupepa. It was "like the
old days of his own consulate," writes Churchward. His messengers
filled the isle; his house was thronged with chiefs and orators; he
sat close over his loom, delightedly weaving the future. There was
one thing requisite to the intrigue, - a native pretender; and the
very man, you would have said, stood waiting: Mataafa, titular of
Atua, descended from both the royal lines, late joint king with
Tamasese, fobbed off with nothing in the time of the Lackawanna
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: I have been studying that boy for your sake ever since we got here, and I
know him through and through. And I tell you, you cannot count upon him.
He has not been used to our ways, and I see no promise of his getting
used to them. He will stay capable of outbreaks like that horrid one on
the bridge. Wherever you take him, wherever you put him, no matter how
much you show him of us, and the way we don't allow conspicuous things
like that to occur, believe me, Hortense, he'll never learn, he'll never
smooth down. You may brush his hair flat and keep him appearing like
other people for a while, but a time will come, something will happen,
and that boy'll be conspicuous. Charley would never be conspicuous."
"No," assented Hortense.
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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 U. S. Project Trinity Report by Carl Maag and Steve Rohrer: instructed to be in foxholes south of Mockingbird Gap. A radiological
safety monitor was assigned to the group from Guard Post 4. Guard Post
5 personnel were to be in the south shelter, Guard Post 6 personnel in
the west shelter, and Guard Post 7 personnel in the north shelter.
The military police of Guard Post 8 remained at that post, 400 meters
east of the Base Camp (9).
An evacuation detachment of between 144 and 160 officers and enlisted
men was stationed near Guard Post 2, about 14 kilometers northwest of
ground zero. These men were on standby in case ranches and towns
beyond the test site had to be evacuated. Five radiological safety
monitors were assigned to this detachment. Ninety-four men of the
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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 Marie by H. Rider Haggard: come to the Cape Colony to trade many years before and settled there.
Both he and his wife were dead, and their son, Hernando, Marie's cousin,
had inherited all their very considerable wealth.
Indeed, now I remembered having heard this Hernando, or Hernan, as the
Boers called him for short, spoken of in past years by the Heer Marais
as the heir to great riches, since his father had made a large fortune
by trading in wine and spirits under some Government monopoly which he
held. Often he had been invited to visit Maraisfontein, but his
parents, who doted on him and lived in one of the settled districts not
far from Cape Town, would never allow him to travel so far from them
into these wild regions.
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