| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: There they squatted
in a hellish half-circle, their legs on the desert sand and their
mitres piercing the luminous clouds; sinister, wolflike, and double-headed,
with faces of fury and right hands raised, dully and malignly
watching the rim of man's world and guarding with horror the reaches
of a cold northern world that is not man's. From their hideous
laps rose evil Shantaks of elephantine bulk, but these all fled
with insane titters as the vanguard of night-gaunts was sighted
in the misty sky. Northward above those gargoyle mountains the
army flew, and over leagues of dim desert where never a landmark
rose. Less and less luminous grew the clouds, till at length Carter
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll: "Course he had blankets!" retorted her brother. "Doos oo think
Crocodiles goes walks wizout blankets? And he frowned with his
eyebrows. And the Goat was welly flightened at his eyebrows!"
"I'd never be afraid of eyebrows?" exclaimed Sylvie.
"I should think oo would, though, if they'd got a Crocodile fastened to
them, like these had! And so the Man jamp, and he jamp, and at last he
got right out of the hole."
Sylvie gave another little gasp: this rapid dodging about among the
characters of the Story had taken away her breath.
"And he runned away for to look for the Goat, oo know. And he heard
the Lion grunting---"
Sylvie and Bruno |
