| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: Unrecompensed, sure, thou shalt not be.
In court thy courage shall be plainly known:
Throughout the Kingdom will I spread thy name,
To thy renown and never dying fame:
And that thy courage may be better known,
Bear thou the head of this most monstrous beast
In open sight to every courtiers view:
So will the king my father thee reward.
Come, let's away, and guard me to the court.
MUCEDORUS.
With all my heart.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: extinct pipe in mouth, humorously observant, bringing his mind
slowly to the seventy-seventh decision that the captain was a
Card, while the words flowed from the latter in a nimble
incessant good. "Dis England eet is not a country aristocratic,
no! Eet is a glorified bourgeoisie! Eet is plutocratic. In
England dere is no aristocracy since de Wars of Roses. In the
rest of Europe east of the Latins, yes; in England, no.
"Eet is all middle-class, youra England. Everything you look
at, middle-class. Respectable! Everything good--eet is, you
say, shocking. Madame Grundy! Eet is all limited and computing
and self-seeking. Dat is why your art is so limited, youra
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