| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: eloquence, that I could not help decyphering something in his face above
his condition, and should have sifted out his history, had not poor Maria
taken such full possession of me.
We had got up by this time almost to the bank where Maria was sitting: she
was in a thin white jacket, with her hair, all but two tresses, drawn up
into a silk-net, with a few olive leaves twisted a little fantastically on
one side--she was beautiful; and if ever I felt the full force of an honest
heart-ache, it was the moment I saw her--
--God help her! poor damsel! above a hundred masses, said the postillion,
have been said in the several parish churches and convents around, for
her,--but without effect; we have still hopes, as she is sensible for short
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs: waited but to learn that Tarzan was absent ere she was fairly
flying through the matted branches toward the point from
which the cries of the gorilla were still plainly audible.
Darkness had now fallen, and an early moon was sending
its faint light to cast strange, grotesque shadows among the
dense foliage of the forest.
Here and there the brilliant rays penetrated to earth, but
for the most part they only served to accentuate the Stygian
blackness of the jungle's depths.
Like some huge phantom, Kala swung noiselessly from
tree to tree; now running nimbly along a great branch, now
Tarzan of the Apes |
