| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: windows lit: I'd like to string lanterns from the roof and
chimneys!"
She ended with an inward tremor. All through her exposition
and her appeal she had told herself that the moment could
hardly have been less well chosen. In Darrow's place she
would have felt, as he doubtless did, that her carefully
developed argument was only the disguise of an habitual
indecision. It was the hour of all others when she would
have liked to affirm herself by brushing aside every
obstacle to his wishes; yet it was only by opposing them
that she could show the strength of character she wanted him
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer: too, and he met with a similar fate. Without other evidence,
the fact that they both died in the same way as the dacoit would
be conclusive, for we know that Fu-Manchu killed the dacoit!"
"What is the meaning of the mutilated hands, Smith?"
"God knows! Cadby's death was from drowning, you say?"
"There are no other marks of violence."
"But he was a very strong swimmer, Doctor," interrupted Inspector Ryman.
"Why, he pulled off the quarter-mile championship at the Crystal Palace
last year! Cadby wasn't a man easy to drown. And as for Mason,
he was an R.N.R., and like a fish in the water!"
Smith shrugged his shoulders helplessly.
The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu |
