| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: covetousness or envy, or even of a just demand for the freedom of
labour and enterprise: but the very deepest springs of rage,
contempt, and hate; wrongs which caused, as I believe, the horrors
of the Revolution.
It is notorious how many of the men most deeply implicated in those
horrors were of the artist class--by which I signify not merely
painters and sculptors--as the word artist has now got, somewhat
strangely, to signify, at least in England--but what the French
meant by ARTISTES--producers of luxuries and amusements, play-
actors, musicians, and suchlike, down to that "distracted peruke-
maker with two fiery torches," who, at the storm of the Bastile,
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: artists in the building, and had manifested since then only alternations
of unconsciousness and delirium. My uncle at once telephoned the
family, and from that time forward kept close watch of the case;
calling often at the Thayer Street office of Dr. Tobey, whom he
learned to be in charge. The youth's febrile mind, apparently,
was dwelling on strange things; and the doctor shuddered now and
then as he spoke of them. They included not only a repetition
of what he had formerly dreamed, but touched wildly on a gigantic
thing "miles high" which walked or lumbered about.
He at no
time fully described this object but occasional frantic words,
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