| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: of Lutha. His palm was raised for silence and there was a
smile upon his lips. Quite suddenly, and as by a miracle,
fear left them. They made a line for him and his staff to
ride through. One of the officers turned in his saddle to
address a civilian friend in an automobile.
"His majesty is riding to the firing line," he said and he
raised his voice that many might hear. Quickly the word
passed from mouth to mouth, and as Barney Custer, of
Beatrice, passed along Margaretha Street he was followed
by a mad din of cheering that drowned the booming of the
distant cannon and the bursting of the shells above the
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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 Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: although it was also disagreeable. She was spared the need of
finding an answer to the question, for Evelyn proceeded, "Do you
_believe_ in anything?"
In order to put an end to the scrutiny of these bright blue eyes,
and to relieve her own physical restlessness, Rachel pushed back
her chair and exclaimed, "In everything!" and began to finger
different objects, the books on the table, the photographs,
the freshly leaved plant with the stiff bristles, which stood
in a large earthenware pot in the window.
"I believe in the bed, in the photographs, in the pot, in the balcony,
in the sun, in Mrs. Flushing," she remarked, still speaking recklessly,
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