| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Cavalry General by Xenophon: Gell. "Noct. Att." v. 2.
To come to the existing body of knights,[20] it would tend,[21] I
think, to better rearing and more careful treatment of their horses if
the senate issued a formal notice that for the future twice the amount
of drill will be required, and that any horse unable to keep up will
be rejected. And so, too, with regard to vicious horses, I should like
to see an edict promulgated to the effect that all such animals will
be rejected. This threat would stimulate the owners of such brutes to
part with them by sale, and, what is more, to exercise discretion at
the time of purchase. So, too, it would be a good thing if the same
threat of rejection were made to include horses that kick on the
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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: in the sunset with the carved and polished features of a god.
Stern and terrible shone that face that the sunset lit with
fire. How vast it was no mind can ever measure, but Carter knew
at once that man could never have fashioned it. It was a god chiselled
by the hands of the gods, and it looked down haughty and majestic
upon the seeker. Rumour had said it was strange and not to be
mistaken, and Carter saw that it was indeed so; for those long
narrow eyes and long-lobed ears, and that thin nose and pointed
chin, all spoke of a race that is not of men but of gods.
He
clung overawed in that lofty and perilous eyrie, even though it
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
