| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: 'So proud!' she murmured, uneasy. 'And so lordly! Now I know why men
are so overbearing! But he's lovely, REALLY. Like another being! A bit
terrifying! But lovely really! And he comes to ME!--' She caught her
lower lip between her teeth, in fear and excitement.
The man looked down in silence at the tense phallos, that did not
change.--'Ay!' he said at last, in a little voice. 'Ay ma lad! tha're
theer right enough. Yi, tha mun rear thy head! Theer on thy own, eh?
an' ta'es no count O' nob'dy! Tha ma'es nowt O' me, John Thomas. Art
boss? of me? Eh well, tha're more cocky than me, an' tha says less.
John Thomas! Dost want HER? Dost want my lady Jane? Tha's dipped me in
again, tha hast. Ay, an' tha comes up smilin'.--Ax 'er then! Ax lady
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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 Case of the Registered Letter by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: she will spend the night of the 23rd with her mother, in another
part of the city. It is to be a birthday celebration I believe,
so that I can be certain her plans will not be changed.
Graumann and I will be alone, therefore, with no reliable witnesses
near. I will keep him there for a little while with commonplace
conversation, for I have nothing to say to him. If he moves near
the desk I will upset the inkbottle. The spots on his clothes will
be another evidence against him. I will endeavour to get him to
keep my jewelry which is, as you know, of considerable value. I
will tell him that I am going away for a while and ask him to take
charge of it for me. I, myself, will take him down to the door and
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: lot to burn a railroad station for the good of the cause. He
strove to ruin me with my leaders in this despicable manner.
"But in the end he took to showing himself; he stood and stared.
Merely that. He was subtle enough to shift the persecution from
the province of the physical to the realm of the psychological.
It was like being haunted. Even when I did not see him, I began
to THINK that I saw him. He deliberately planted that
hallucination in my mind. It is a wonder that I did not go mad.
"I finally determined to flee to America. I made all my
arrangements with care and--as I thought--with secrecy. I
imagined that I had given him the slip. But he was too clever
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from The Reign of King Edward the Third by William Shakespeare: And where he sets his foot, he ought to kneel.
Tis not a petty Dukedom that I claim,
But all the whole Dominions of the Realm;
Which if with grudging he refuse to yield,
I'll take away those borrowed plumes of his,
And send him naked to the wilderness.
LORRAIN.
Then, Edward, here, in spite of all thy Lords,
I do pronounce defiance to thy face.
PRINCE EDWARD.
Defiance, French man? we rebound it back,
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