| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Beast in the Jungle by Henry James: was lost in the crowd, had been invited over to luncheon. There
had been after luncheon much dispersal, all in the interest of the
original motive, a view of Weatherend itself and the fine things,
intrinsic features, pictures, heirlooms, treasures of all the arts,
that made the place almost famous; and the great rooms were so
numerous that guests could wander at their will, hang back from the
principal group and in cases where they took such matters with the
last seriousness give themselves up to mysterious appreciations and
measurements. There were persons to be observed, singly or in
couples, bending toward objects in out-of-the-way corners with
their hands on their knees and their heads nodding quite as with
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Hermione's Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis: p123 Grave accent mark removed from "e" in "winged".
p126 "Aegean" with "AE" as a single combined capital letter]
changed to "Aegean".
p154 Circumflex removed from first "e" in "crepe".
p156 "benefited" changed to "benefitted"
p163 "Phoenecian" with "oe" printed as a single combined letter
changed to "phoenecian".
p176 "Caesar" with "ae" printed as a single combined letter
changed to "Caesar".
p176 "duelled" changed to "dueled".
Throughout, "m dashes" are converted to "space hyphen hyphen space".
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