| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from A Man of Business by Honore de Balzac: I am madly in love with her; but this is not her furniture; no, it
belongs to me. The lease is taken out in my name.'
"You know Maxime! He thought the coach-builder uncommonly green.
Croizeau might pay all three bills, and get nothing for a long while;
for Maxime felt more infatuated with Antonia than ever."
"I can well believe it," said La Palferine. "She is the /bella
Imperia/ of our day."
"With her rough skin!" exclaimed Malaga; "so rough, that she ruins
herself in bran baths!"
"Croizeau spoke with a coach-builder's admiration of the sumptuous
furniture provided by the amorous Denisart as a setting for his fair
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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: all the original horror. We saw, as I have said, certain obstructions
on the polished floor ahead; and I may add that our nostrils were
assailed almost simultaneously by a very curious intensification
of the strange prevailing fetor, now quite plainly mixed with
the nameless stench of those others which had gone before. The
light of the second torch left no doubt of what the obstructions
were, and we dared approach them only because we could see, even
from a distance, that they were quite as past all harming power
as had been the six similar specimens unearthed from the monstrous
star-mounded graves at poor Lake’s camp.
They were, indeed,
At the Mountains of Madness |
