| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: morning he goes knocking about the doors of a loft, it's natural to suppose
there's mischief in it. It's certain there is mischief in it; and where
there's mischief in, it must be taken out," said Bonaparte, grinning into
the boy's face. Then, feeling that he had fallen from that high gravity
which was as spice to the pudding, and the flavour of the whole little
tragedy, he drew himself up. "Waldo," he said, "confess to me instantly,
and without reserve, that you ate the peaches."
The boy's face was white now. His eyes were on the ground, his hands
doggedly clasped before him.
"What, do you not intend to answer?"
The boy looked up at them once from under his bent eyebrows, and then
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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 Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: of the helplessly wind-sucked party. They were rising abruptly
now, and it was plain that the focus of their flight was the onyx
castle where the pale light shone. So close was the great black
mountain that its sides sped by them dizzily as they shot upward,
and in the darkness they could discern nothing upon it. Vaster
and vaster loomed the tenebrous towers of the nighted castle above,
and Carter could see that it was well-nigh blasphemous in its
immensity. Well might its stones have been quarried by nameless
workmen in that horrible gulf rent out of the rock in the hill
pass north of Inquanok, for such was its size that a man on its
threshold stood even as air out on the steps of earth's loftiest
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
