| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton: penetration of the growing light, the relentless advance of
another day--a day without purpose and without meaning--a day
without Nick. At length she dropped her hands, and staring from
dry lids saw a rim of fire above the roofs across the Grand
Canal. She sprang up, ran back into her room, and dragging the
heavy curtains shut across the windows, stumbled over in the
darkness to the lounge and fell among its pillows-face
downward--groping, delving for a deeper night ....
She started up, stiff and aching, to see a golden wedge of sun
on the floor at her feet. She had slept, then--was it
possible?--it must be eight or nine o'clock already! She had
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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: the cold waste was spoken of. This man was reputed to trade with
the horrible stone villages on the icy desert plateau of Leng,
which no healthy folk visit and whose evil fires are seen at night
from afar. He was even rumoured to have dealt with that High-Priest
Not To Be Described, which wears a yellow silken mask over its
face and dwells all alone in a prehistoric stone monastery. That
such a person might well have had nibbling traffick with such
beings as may conceivably dwell in the cold waste was not to be
doubted, but Carter soon found that it was no use questioning
him.
Then the black galley slipped into the harbour past the
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