| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: that the motions of the galley had begun to excite suspicion.
Evidently the steersman was not making for the right dock, and
probably the watchers had noticed the difference between the hideous
ghouls and the almost-human slaves whose places they were taking.
Some silent alarm must have been given, for almost at once a horde
of the mephitic moonbeasts began to pour from the little black
doorways of the windowless houses and down the winding road at
the right. A rain of curious javelins struck the galley as the
prow hit the wharf felling two ghouls and slightly wounding another;
but at this point all the hatches were thrown open to emit a black
cloud of whirring night-gaunts which swarmed over the town like
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson: and my admiration for that tale rises; I believe it is in
some ways my best work; I am pretty sure, at least, I have
never done anything better than Wiltshire.
MONDAY, 13TH SEPTEMBER 1892.
On Wednesday the Spinsters of Apia gave a ball to a select
crowd. Fanny, Belle, Lloyd and I rode down, met Haggard by
the way and joined company with him. Dinner with Haggard,
and thence to the ball. The Chief Justice appeared; it was
immediately remarked, and whispered from one to another, that
he and I had the only red sashes in the room, - and they were
both of the hue of blood, sir, blood. He shook hands with
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