| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: two battling lions Tarzan regained his feet, though he was half
dazed and staggering from the impact of the terrible blow he
had received. Behind him he saw a lifeless lion lying torn and
bleeding upon the sand, and before him Numa of the pit was
savagely mauling the second lion.
He of the black coat tremendously outclassed his adversary
in point of size and strength as well as in ferocity. The
battling
beasts made a few feints and passes at each other before the
larger succeeded in fastening his fangs in the other's throat,
and then, as a cat shakes a mouse, the larger lion shook the
Tarzan the Untamed |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Honore de Balzac: down their establishments.
Etienne Lousteau broke in upon their breakfast with a shout of
"Hurrah! Long live The Archer of Charles IX.! And I have converted a
hundred francs worth of books into cash, children. We will go halves."
He handed fifty francs to Coralie, and sent Berenice out in quest of a
more substantial breakfast.
"Hector Merlin and I went to a booksellers' trade dinner yesterday,
and prepared the way for your romance with cunning insinuations.
Dauriat is in treaty, but Dauriat is haggling over it; he won't give
more than four thousand francs for two thousand copies, and you want
six thousand francs. We made you out twice as great as Sir Walter
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