| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: field, and buried it there in the best sort of grave the frozen
ground would furnish. The grave was not very deep, but fully as
good as that of the previous specimen -- the thing which had risen
of itself and uttered a sound. In the light of our dark lanterns
we carefully covered it with leaves and dead vines, fairly certain
that the police would never find it in a forest so dim and dense.
The next day I was increasingly apprehensive about the police,
for a patient brought rumours of a suspected fight and death.
West had still another source of worry, for he had been called
in the afternoon to a case which ended very threateningly. An
Italian woman had become hysterical over her missing child --
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Two Poets by Honore de Balzac: father-in-law."
These short observations did not permit of discussion; a "Yes" or
"No," extracted from his interlocutor, the conversation dropped dead.
Then M. de Bargeton mutely implored his visitor to come to his
assistance. Turning westward his old asthmatic pug-dog countenance, he
gazed at you with big, lustreless eyes, in a way that said, "You were
saying?"
The people whom he loved best were bores anxious to talk about
themselves; he listened to them with an unfeigned and delicate
interest which so endeared him to the species that all the twaddlers
of Angouleme credited M. de Bargeton with more understanding than he
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