| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: a policeman observed the place in darkness, but the strager's
motor still at the curb. By 4 o'clock the motor was certainly
gone.
It was at 6 o'clock that a hesitant, foreign voice on
the telephone asked Dr Wilson to call at my house and bring me
out of a peculiar faint. This call - a long-distance one - was
later traced to a public booth in the North Station in Boston,
but no sign of the lean foreigner was ever unearthed.
When the
doctor reached my house he found me unconscious in the sitting
room - in an easy-chair with a table drawn up before it. On the
 Shadow out of Time |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: glowed like fiery jewels. She recognized, almost with a shock, that one of
them was hers, Dolly, the companion of her girlhood and womanhood, on whose
neck she had sobbed her sorrows and sung her joys. A moistness welled into her
eyes at the sight, and she came back from the remoteness of her mood, quick
with passion and sorrow, to be part of the world again.
The man sank forward from the hips, relaxing entirely, and with a groan
dropped his head on her knee. She leaned over him and pressed her lips softly
and lingeringly to his hair.
"Come, let us go," she said, almost in a whisper.
She caught her breath in a half-sob, then tightened her lips as she rose. His
face was white to ghastliness, so shaken was he by the struggle through which
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