| 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: carefully and supplementing the moonlight with my electric torch.
Unlike the other very large rocks, this one was perfectly square-cut,
with no convex or concave surface. It seemed, too, to be of a
dark basaltic substance, wholly dissimilar to the granite and
sandstone and occasional concrete of the now familiar fragments.
Suddenly I rose, turned, and ran for the camp at top speed.
It was a wholly unconscious and irrational flight, and only when
I was close to my tent did I fully realise why I had run. Then
it came to me. The queer dark stone was something which I had
dreamed and read about, and which was linked with the uttermost
horrors of the aeon-old legendry.
Shadow out of Time |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Travels and Researches in South Africa by Dr. David Livingstone: the original was typed in (manually) twice and electronically compared.
[Note on text: Italicized words or phrases are CAPITALIZED.
Some obvious errors have been corrected.]
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa.
Also called, Travels and Researches in South Africa;
or, Journeys and Researches in South Africa.
By David Livingstone [British (Scot) Missionary and Explorer--1813-1873.]
David Livingstone was born in Scotland, received his medical degree
from the University of Glasgow, and was sent to South Africa
by the London Missionary Society. Circumstances led him to try to meet
the material needs as well as the spiritual needs of the people he went to,
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