| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: understanding, and he was not carried away by this sudden access
of prosperity, nor did he emulate the heedlessness of the kings
that had gone before him, and had been miserably expelled, but
his soul was plunged in care and trouble how he might order his
affairs well. After long and careful search, he learned from a
wise counsellor the custom of the citizens, and the place of
perpetual banishment, and was taught of him without guile how to
ensure himself against this fate. So with this knowledge that
within a very little while he must reach that island and leave to
strangers this chance kingdom among strangers, he opened the
treasures whereof he had awhile absolute and unforbidden use, and
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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 Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum: replied briefly: "Jinxland."
"Oh!" exclaimed Cap'n Bill, with a puzzled look. "And
where is Jinxland, please?"
"In the Quadling Country," said she.
"What!" cried Trot, in sudden excitement. "Do you mean
to say this is the Quadling Country of the Land of Oz?"
"To be sure I do," the woman answered. "Every bit of
land that is surrounded by the great desert is the Land
of Oz, as you ought to know as well as I do; but I'm
sorry to say that Jinxland is separated from the rest of
the Quadling Country by that row of high mountains you
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