| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells: And though there was a vibration of resolution in her voice she
spoke like one who is under her own control.
"Mother has told you that I have disgraced myself," she began.
"No," said the bishop, weighing it. "No. But you seem to have
been indiscreet, little Norah."
"I got excited," she said. "They began turning out the other
women--roughly. I was indignant."
"You didn't go to interrupt?" he asked.
She considered. "No," she said. "But I went."
He liked her disposition to get it right. "On that side," he
assisted.
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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: darkness, or might - if legend spoke truly - hold horrors of a
form not to be surmised.
The ground sloped upward to the foot
of Ngranek, thinly covered with scrub oaks and ash trees, and
strewn with bits of rock, lava, and ancient cinder. There were
the charred embers of many camps, where the lava-gatherers were
wont to stop, and several rude altars which they had built either
to propitiate the Great Ones or to ward off what they dreamed
of in Ngranek's high passes and labyrinthine caves. At evening
Carter reached the farthermost pile of embers and camped for the
night, tethering his zebra to a sapling and wrapping himself well
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
