| 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: dreams to the curious.
After that the captain took Carter to
the north quarter of the town, near the Gate of the Caravans,
where are the taverns of the yak-merchants and the onyx-miners.
And there, in a low-ceiled inn of quarrymen, they said farewell;
for business called the captain whilst Carter was eager to talk
with miners about the north. There were many men in that inn,
and the traveller was not long in speaking to some of them; saying
that he was an old miner of onyx, and anxious to know somewhat
of Inquanok's quarries. But all that he learned was not much more
than he knew before, for the miners were timid and evasive about
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 The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: his pipe, dropping it into his breast-pocket so that the little bowl hung
over. And straightway the soft airy whistling began again. Wag ran out
along a ledge of rock after something that smelled, and ran back again
disgusted. Then pushing, nudging, hurrying, the sheep rounded the bend and
the shepherd followed after out of sight.
Chapter 1.II.
A few moments later the back door of one of the bungalows opened, and a
figure in a broad-striped bathing suit flung down the paddock, cleared the
stile, rushed through the tussock grass into the hollow, staggered up the
sandy hillock, and raced for dear life over the big porous stones, over the
cold, wet pebbles, on to the hard sand that gleamed like oil. Splish-
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