| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: the veins of the newly deceased, would restore life; a labour
demanding an abundance of fresh corpses and therefore involving
the most unnatural actions. Still more shocking were the products
of some of the experiments -- grisly masses of flesh that had
been dead, but that West waked to a blind, brainless, nauseous
ammation. These were the usual results, for in order to reawaken
the mind it was necessary to have specimens so absolutely fresh
that no decay could possibly affect the delicate brain-cells.
This need for very fresh corpses had been West’s moral undoing.
They were hard to get, and one awful day he had secured his specimen
while it was still alive and vigorous. A struggle, a needle, and
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: "I think we've exhausted this discussion," she said.
"I think we have," he answered, gravely, and took her in his
arms, and smoothed her hair from her forehead, and very tenderly
kissed her lips.
Part 6
They spent the next Sunday in Richmond Park, and mingled the
happy sensation of being together uninterruptedly through the
long sunshine of a summer's day with the ample discussion of
their position. "This has all the clean freshness of spring and
youth," said Capes; "it is love with the down on; it is like the
glitter of dew in the sunlight to be lovers such as we are, with
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