| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Alcibiades I by Plato: soul?
ALCIBIADES: That appears to be true.
SOCRATES: He whose knowledge only extends to the body, knows the things of
a man, and not the man himself?
ALCIBIADES: That is true.
SOCRATES: Then neither the physician regarded as a physician, nor the
trainer regarded as a trainer, knows himself?
ALCIBIADES: He does not.
SOCRATES: The husbandmen and the other craftsmen are very far from knowing
themselves, for they would seem not even to know their own belongings?
When regarded in relation to the arts which they practise they are even
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: the one slovenly mercantile establishment of the hamlet. One dreads
to trust the tenebrous tunnel of the bridge, yet there is no way
to avoid it. Once across, it is hard to prevent the impression
of a faint, malign odour about the village street, as of the massed
mould and decay of centuries. It is always a relief to get clear
of the place, and to follow the narrow road around the base of
the hills and across the level country beyond till it rejoins
the Aylesbury pike. Afterwards one sometimes learns that one has
been through Dunwich.
Outsiders visit Dunwich as seldom as possible,
and since a certain season of horror all the signboards pointing
The Dunwich Horror |
