| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum: watched every action of the adventurers from the
time Shaggy had met shipwrecked Betsy and Hank in
the Rose Kingdom, at which time the Rose Princess,
a distant cousin of Ozma, had been exiled by her
heartless subjects.
When Ann and her people so earnestly wished to
return to Oogaboo, Ozma was sorry for them and
remembered that Oogaboo was a corner of the Land
of Oz. She turned to her attendant and asked:
"Can not your magic take these unhappy people to
their old home, Wizard?"
Tik-Tok of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: men's banter both on the work and about the evening's fire as though
he enjoyed it. Gradually the men got used to him, and ceased to
treat him as an outsider. His thin, eager face, his steel-blue,
inquiring eyes behind the glasses, his gray felt hat, his lank,
tense figure in its gray, became a familiar feature. They threw
remarks to him, to which he replied briefly and drily. When
anything interesting was going on, somebody told him about it. Then
he hurried to the spot, no matter how distant it might be. He used
always the river trail; he never attempted to ride the logs.
He seemed to depend most on observation, for he rarely asked any
questions. What few queries he had to proffer, he made to Orde
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