The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "Man of another world," he said, "I believe you.
Lips may lie, but when the heart speaks through the eyes
it tells only the truth. Your heart has spoken to me.
I know now that you meant no affront to Dian the Beautiful.
She is not of my tribe; but her mother is my sister.
She does not know it--her mother was stolen by Dian's
father who came with many others of the tribe of Amoz
to battle with us for our women--the most beautiful women
of Pellucidar. Then was her father king of Amoz, and her
mother was daughter of the king of Sari--to whose power I,
his son, have succeeded. Dian is the daughter of kings,
 At the Earth's Core |
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 Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: swiftly; full of heart-satisfying incident and life, with man and boy growing
closer in an intimacy that was as warm as it was unusual.
Two reasons might account for this: First, there is no sane human being who is
not better off for companionship. An exile would find something of happiness
in one who shared his misery. And, secondly, Joe was a most acceptable
comrade, even for a slayer of Indians. Wedded as Wetzel was to the forest
trails, to his lonely life, to the Nemesis-pursuit he had followed for
eighteen long years, he was still a white man, kind and gentle in his quiet
hours, and because of this, though he knew it not, still capable of affection.
He had never known youth; his manhood had been one pitiless warfare against
his sworn foes; but once in all those years had his sore, cold heart warmed;
 The Spirit of the Border |