| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: slightest offence to his late intimate; "upon my word, Captain
Craigengelt, either you have invented the most improbable
falsehood that ever came into the mind of such a person, or your
morning draught has been somewhat of the strongest. What could
persuade Bucklaw to send me such a message?"
"For that, sir," replied Craigengelt, "I am desired to refer you
to what, in duty to my friend, I am to term your
inhospitality in excluding him from your house, without reasons
assigned."
"It is impossible," replied the Master; "he cannot be such a
fool as to interpret actual necessity as an insult. Nor do I
The Bride of Lammermoor |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: heavy swell of sea for the operations in hand. A landing was,
however, made this morning, when the artificers were
immediately employed in scraping the seaweed off the upper
course of the building, in order to apply the moulds of the
first course of the staircase, that the joggle-holes might be
marked off in the upper course of the solid. This was also
necessary previously to the writer's fixing the position of
the entrance door, which was regulated chiefly by the
appearance of the growth of the seaweed on the building,
indicating the direction of the heaviest seas, on the opposite
side of which the door was placed. The landing-master's crew
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