| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte: in.
"Now you will indeed hate me," I said. "It is useless to attempt to
conciliate you: I see I have made an eternal enemy of you."
A fresh wrong did these words inflict: the worse, because they
touched on the truth. That bloodless lip quivered to a temporary
spasm. I knew the steely ire I had whetted. I was heart-wrung.
"You utterly misinterpret my words," I said, at once seizing his
hand: "I have no intention to grieve or pain you--indeed, I have
not."
Most bitterly he smiled--most decidedly he withdrew his hand from
mine. "And now you recall your promise, and will not go to India at
 Jane Eyre |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: finest art to give his new Byzantine capital greater splendors
than its own people could create. That the transfer of sculptured
blocks had not been more extensive was doubtless owing to the
fact that the land city was not at first wholly abandoned. By
the time total abandonment did occur - and it surely must have
occurred before the polar Pleistocene was far advanced - the Old
Ones had perhaps become satisfied with their decadent art - or
had ceased to recognize the superior merit of the older carvings.
At any rate, the aeon-silent ruins around us had certainly undergone
no wholesale sculptural denudation, though all the best separate
statues, like other movables, had been taken away.
 At the Mountains of Madness |