| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson: took his dwelling, and he made a fire drill, and a shell hook, and
fished and cooked his fish, and climbed after green cocoanuts, the
juice of which he drank, for in all the isle there was no water.
The days were long to him, and the nights terrifying. He made a
lamp of cocoa-shell, and drew the oil of the ripe nuts, and made a
wick of fibre; and when evening came he closed up his hut, and lit
his lamp, and lay and trembled till morning. Many a time he
thought in his heart he would have been better in the bottom of the
sea, his bones rolling there with the others.
All this while he kept by the inside of the island, for the huts
were on the shore of the lagoon, and it was there the palms grew
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: to the function performed. The thing was excellently preserved
up to the present top of the tower - a highly remarkable circumstance
in view of its exposure - and its shelter had done much to protect
the bizarre and disturbing cosmic sculptures on the walls.
As
we stepped out into the awesome half daylight of this monstrous
cylinder bottom - fifty million years old, and without doubt the
most primally ancient structure ever to meet our eyes - we saw
that the ramp-traversed sides stretched dizzily up to a height
of fully sixty feet. This, we recalled from our aerial survey,
meant an outside glaciation of some forty feet; since the yawning
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