| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: Tono-Bungay and rarely abandoned it. He preferred silk hats with
ample rich brims, often a trifle large for him by modern ideas,
and he wore them at various angles to his axis; his taste in
trouserings was towards fairly emphatic stripes and his trouser
cut was neat; he liked his frock-coat long and full, although
that seemed to shorten him. He displayed a number of valuable
rings, and I remember one upon his left little finger with a
large red stone bearing Gnostic symbols. "Clever chaps, those
Gnostics, George," he told me. "Means a lot. Lucky!" He never
had any but a black mohair watch-chair. In the country he
affected grey and a large grey cloth top-hat, except when
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: other figures. ``Here it is as it truly is, and where we
truly are! We have oversailed all that the first show, and
so many leagues besides.''
``Two records, true and untrue! Why do you do it so?''
``I have told them that after seven hundred leagues we
should find land. Add fifty more for our general imperfection.
But it may be wider than I think. We may not
come even to some fringing island in eight hundred leagues,
no, nor in more than that! If it be a thousand, if it be two
thousand, on I go! But after the seven hundred is passed,
it will be hard to keep them in hand. So, though we are
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