| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: detours, crosses, and all the time seemed to be getting deeper
into a maze of low, red dunes, of flat canon-beds lined by banks
of gravel, of ridges mounting higher. Yet Link Stevens kept on
and never turned back. He never headed into a place that he
could not pass. Up to this point of travel he had not been
compelled to back the car, and Madeline began to realize that it
was the cowboy's wonderful judgment of ground that made advance
possible. He knew the country; he was never at a loss; after
making a choice of direction, he never hesitated.
Then at the bottom of a wide canon he entered a wash where the
wheels just barely turned in dragging sand. The sun beat down
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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 At the Sign of the Cat & Racket by Honore de Balzac: Madame Guillaume wanted to know the most trivial details of that alien
life, which to her seemed almost fabulous. The travels of Baron da la
Houtan, which she began again and again and never finished, told her
nothing more unheard-of concerning the Canadian savages.
"What, child, your husband shuts himself into a room with naked women!
And you are so simple as to believe that he draws them?"
As she uttered this exclamation, the grandmother laid her spectacles
on a little work-table, shook her skirts, and clasped her hands on her
knees, raised by a foot-warmer, her favorite pedestal.
"But, mother, all artists are obliged to have models."
"He took good care not to tell us that when he asked leave to marry
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