| 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: "Then come and throw yourself limply across my left
shoulder," and Werper knelt to receive her.
"There," he said, as he rose to his feet. "Now, let
your arms, your legs and your head hang limply.
Remember that you are dead."
A moment later the man walked out into the camp, the
body of the woman across his shoulder.
A thorn boma had been thrown up about the camp, to
discourage the bolder of the hungry carnivora. A
couple of sentries paced to and fro in the light of a
fire which they kept burning brightly. The nearer of
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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 New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson: and narrow, but it was exceedingly solitary, bordered on either
hand by garden walls, overhung with foliage; and, for as far as the
fugitive could see in front of him, there was neither a creature
moving nor an open door. Providence, weary of persecution, was now
offering him an open field for his escape.
Alas! as he came abreast of a garden door under a tuft of
chestnuts, it was suddenly drawn back, and he could see inside,
upon a garden path, the figure of a butcher's boy with his tray
upon his arm. He had hardly recognised the fact before he was some
steps beyond upon the other side. But the fellow had had time to
observe him; he was evidently much surprised to see a gentleman go
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