| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum: When this important matter was attended to they found
time to look about them and see what sort of place the
Ork had landed them in.
Chapter Seven
The Bumpy Man
The mountain on which they had alighted was not a
barren waste, but had on its sides patches of green
grass, some bushes, a few slender trees and here and
there masses of tumbled rocks. The sides of the slope
seemed rather steep, but with care one could climb up or
down them with ease and safety. The view from where they
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Lucile by Owen Meredith: Both rider and horse might have been in a trice
Hurl'd horribly over the grim precipice.
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As soon as the moment's alarm had subsided,
And the oath with which nothing can find unprovided
A thoroughbred Englishman, safely exploded,
Lord Alfred unbent (as Apollo his bow did
Now and then) his erectness; and looking, not ruder
Than such inroad would warrant, survey'd the intruder,
Whose arrival so nearly cut short in his glory
My hero, and finished abruptly this story.
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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 A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: clansmen of Argyle were arranged in two lines, not far from the
angle between the river and the lake, and made an appearance
equally resolute and formidable. Auchenbreck would willingly
have commenced the battle by an attack on the outposts of the
enemy, but Argyle, with more cautious policy, preferred receiving
to making the onset. Signals were soon heard, that they would
not long wait for it in vain. The Campbells could distinguish,
in the gorge of the mountains, the war-tunes of various clans as
they advanced to the onset. That of the Camerons, which bears
the ominous words, addressed to the wolves and ravens, "Come to
me, and I will give you flesh," was loudly re-echoed from their
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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 Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum: "This reminds me of old times. It was upon this grassy knoll that I once
saved Dorothy from the Stinging Bees of the Wicked Witch of the West."
"Do Stinging Bees injure pumpkins?" asked Jack, glancing around fearfully.
"They are all dead, so it doesn't matter," replied
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the Scarecrow." And here is where Nick Chopper destroyed the Wicked Witch's
Grey Wolves."
"Who was Nick Chopper?" asked Tip.
"That is the name of my friend the Tin Woodman, answered his Majesty. And
here is where the Winged Monkeys captured and bound us, and flew away with
little Dorothy," he continued, after they had traveled a little way farther.
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