| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: cylindrical wall like an inside counterpart of those once climbing
outside the monstrous towers or ziggurats of antique Babylon.
Only the rapidity of our flight, and the perspective which confounded
the descent with the tower’s inner wall, had prevented our noticing
this feature from the air, and thus caused us to seek another
avenue to the subglacial level. Pabodie might have been able to
tell what sort of engineering held it in place, but Danforth and
I could merely admire and marvel. We could see mighty stone corbels
and pillars here and there, but what we saw seemed inadequate
to the function performed. The thing was excellently preserved
up to the present top of the tower - a highly remarkable circumstance
At the Mountains of Madness |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: you thought was the only existing witness you need fear, and -"
"Great God!" The Adventurer cried out. "You - Rhoda! The White
Moll! I - I don't understand, though I can see you are not the
woman who originally masqueraded as Gypsy Nan, for I knew her, as
I said, by sight."
He was on his feet now, his face aflame with a great light. He
took a step toward her.
"Wait!" she said hurriedly. She glanced at Danglar. The man's
face was blanched, his body seemed to have shriveled up, and
there was a light in his eyes as they held upon her that was near
to the borderland of insanity. "That night at Skarbolov's!" she
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