| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen: peas, and put twenty feather beds over the mattresses.
Upon this bed the Princess was to pass the night.
The next morning she was asked how she had slept. "Oh, very badly indeed!" she
replied. "I have scarcely closed my eyes the whole night through. I do not
know what was in my bed, but I had something hard under me, and am all over
black and blue. It has hurt me so much!"
Now it was plain that the lady must be a real Princess, since she had been
able to feel the three little peas through the twenty mattresses and twenty
feather beds. None but a real Princess could have had such a delicate sense of
feeling.
The Prince accordingly made her his wife; being now convinced that he had
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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 Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: felt, he walked slowly out of the room.
Von der Tann and Butzow and Leopold of Lutha stood
in silence as the American passed out of sight beyond the
portal.
The manner of his going had been an affront to the king,
and the young ruler had gone red with anger.
"Butzow," he cried, "bring the fellow back; he shall be
taught a lesson in the deference that is due kings."
Butzow hesitated. "He has risked his life a dozen times
for your majesty," said the lieutenant.
Leopold flushed.
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