| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: gestures as their incantation drew near its culmination. From
what black wells of Acherontic fear or feeling, from what unplumbed
gulfs of extra-cosmic consciousness or obscure, long-latent heredity,
were those half-articulate thunder-croakings drawn? Presently
they began to gather renewed force and coherence as they grew
in stark, utter, ultimate frenzy.
'Eh-y-ya-ya-yahaah - e'yayayaaaa...
ngh'aaaaa... ngh'aaa... h'yuh... h'yuh... HELP! HELP! ...ff -
ff - ff - FATHER! FATHER! YOG-SOTHOTH!...'
But that was all.
The pallid group in the road, still reeling at the indisputably
The Dunwich Horror |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: "You've got a splendid lot of books," he said.
"They're fairly decent," the other assented, in the curt tone of
the collector who will not talk of his passion for fear of talking
of nothing else; then, as Glennard, his hands in his pockets,
began to stroll perfunctorily down the long line of bookcases--
"Some men," Flamel irresistibly added, "think of books merely as
tools, others as tooling. I'm between the two; there are days
when I use them as scenery, other days when I want them as
society; so that, as you see, my library represents a makeshift
compromise between looks and brains, and the collectors look down
on me almost as much as the students."
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