| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: through Dallington Forest, and the woods below the Beacon.
The children set out after dinner to find old Hobden, who had a
three months' job in the Rough at the back of Pound's Wood. He
had promised to get them a dormouse in its nest. The bright leaf
Still clung to the beech coppice; the long chestnut leaves lay
orange on the ground, and the rides were speckled with scarlet-
lipped sprouting acorns. They worked their way by their own
short cuts to the edge of Pound's Wood, and heard a horse's feet
just as they came to the beech where Ridley the keeper hangs up
the vermin. The poor little fluffy bodies dangled from the
branches - some perfectly good, but most of them dried to
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: hands, and her shoulders were shaking. The coachman looked with
fear and surprise at the foreigner, feeling as if he was about to
run him down with the pole of his carriage and the foreigner
would not move out of his way. All sat in positions similar to
that Katerina Ivanovna had assumed. Wolf's daughter, a thin,
fashionably-dressed girl, very like her father, knelt with her
face in her hands.
The orator suddenly uncovered his face, and smiled a very
real-looking smile, such as actors express joy with, and began
again with a sweet, gentle voice:
"Yet there is a way to be saved. Here it is--a joyful, easy way.
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the apes and the giant figure of their leader, so that
the three, by squatting down as though in conversation,
were passed by, unsuspected. To the rear of the tent
they made their way. Within, Achmet Zek conversed with
several of his lieutenants. Without, Tarzan listened.
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The Deadly Peril of Jane Clayton
Lieutenant Albert Werper, terrified by contemplation of
the fate which might await him at Adis Abeba, cast
about for some scheme of escape, but after the black
Mugambi had eluded their vigilance the Abyssinians
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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 Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac: where he found Giroudeau in the entresol,--caged like a wild beast in
a sort of hen-coop with a sliding panel; in which was a little stove,
a little table, two little chairs, and some little logs of wood. This
establishment bore the magic words, SUBSCRIPTION OFFICE, painted on
the door in black letters, and the word "Cashier," written by hand and
fastened to the grating of the cage. Along the wall that lay opposite
to the cage, was a bench, where, at this moment, a one-armed man was
breakfasting, who was called Coloquinte by Giroudeau, doubtless from
the Egyptian colors of his skin.
"A pretty hole!" exclaimed Philippe, looking round the room. "In the
name of thunder! what are you doing here, you who charged with poor
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