| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: As for the momentary madness which had fallen upon
him on the eve of his marriage, he had trained himself
to regard it as the last of his discarded experiments.
The idea that he could ever, in his senses, have dreamed
of marrying the Countess Olenska had become almost
unthinkable, and she remained in his memory simply as
the most plaintive and poignant of a line of ghosts.
But all these abstractions and eliminations made
of his mind a rather empty and echoing place, and he
supposed that was one of the reasons why the busy
animated people on the Beaufort lawn shocked him as
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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 Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: It's not like any of the few native dialects of which I have any
knowledge."
"It doesn't sound at all like the native language," said the
girl, "but there is something familiar about it. You know,
every now and then I feel that I am just on the verge of
understanding what they are saying, or at least that some-
where I have heard their tongue before, but final recognition
always eludes me."
"I doubt if you ever heard their language spoken," said the
man. "These people must have lived in this out-of-the-way
valley for ages and even if they had retained the original
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