| 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: frightful carnivorous thing in a padded cell at Sefton. Then there
was another -- our first -- whose exact fate we had never learned.
We had fair luck with specimens in Bolton -- much better than
in Arkham. We had not been settled a week before we got an accident
victim on the very night of burial, and made it open its eyes
with an amazingly rational expression before the solution failed.
It had lost an arm -- if it had been a perfect body we might have
succeeded better. Between then and the next January we secured
three more; one total failure, one case of marked muscular motion,
and one rather shivery thing -- it rose of itself and uttered
a sound. Then came a period when luck was poor; interments fell
Herbert West: Reanimator |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: wanted fresh air before he was out of the dark tunnel they led him
through.
"My wig!" he said, when he rose, gasping and puffing, into
open water at the farther end. "It was a long dive, but it was
worth it."
The sea cows had separated and were browsing lazily along the
edges of the finest beaches that Kotick had ever seen. There were
long stretches of smooth-worn rock running for miles, exactly
fitted to make seal-nurseries, and there were play-grounds of hard
sand sloping inland behind them, and there were rollers for seals
to dance in, and long grass to roll in, and sand dunes to climb up
The Jungle Book |
