| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the cinematograph upon the screen, a picture was flashed
before his mind's eye from the storehouse of his memory.
He saw a lithe, boyish figure swinging high above the
ground at the end of a rope. He saw many apes watching
from below, and then he saw the rope part and the boy
hurtle downward toward the ground. Tarzan smiled.
Immediately he commenced to draw the rope rapidly back
and forth across the tree trunk.
The hyenas, gaining courage, came closer. They sniffed
at his legs; but when he struck at them with his free arms
they slunk off. He knew that with the growth of hunger
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: window of lattice, fare thee well: thy casement I need not open,
for I look through thee. Give me thy hand.
PAROLLES.
My lord, you give me most egregious indignity.
LAFEU.
Ay, with all my heart; and thou art worthy of it.
PAROLLES.
I have not, my lord, deserved it.
LAFEU.
Yes, good faith, every dram of it: and I will not bate thee
a scruple.
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