| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The ancestral thirst of vengeance.
Gitche Manito, the mighty,
The creator of the nations,
Looked upon them with compassion,
With paternal love and pity;
Looked upon their wrath and wrangling
But as quarrels among children,
But as feuds and fights of children!
Over them he stretched his right hand,
To subdue their stubborn natures,
To allay their thirst and fever,
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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 Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: already lay asleep with his face to the back of the sofa; another
bed was awaiting me. I took off my coat and boots, and, overcome
by fatigue, by the spirit of Butyga which hovered over the quiet
lounge-room, and by the light, caressing snore of Sobol, I lay
down submissively.
And at once I began dreaming of my wife, of her room, of the
station-master with his face full of hatred, the heaps of snow, a
fire in the theatre. I dreamed of the peasants who had stolen
twenty sacks of rye out of my barn.
"Anyway, it's a good thing the magistrate let them go," I said.
I woke up at the sound of my own voice, looked for a moment in
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