| 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: horror of which dim legends tell, and which is litten only by
the pale death-fire wherewith reeks the ghoulish air and the primal
mists of the pits at earth's core.
At last far below him he
saw faint lines of grey and ominous pinnacles which he knew must
be the fabled Peaks of Throk. Awful and sinister they stand in
the haunted disc of sunless and eternal depths; higher than man
may reckon, and guarding terrible valleys where the Dholes crawl
and burrow nastily. But Carter preferred to look at them than
at his captors, which were indeed shocking and uncouth black things
with smooth, oily, whale-like surfaces, unpleasant horns that
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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 Touchstone by Edith Wharton: American. I want to look something up," he lamely concluded.
The librarian could only suggest George Eliot.
"Well, give me some of the French things, then--and I'll have
Merimee's letters. It was the woman who published them, wasn't
it?"
He caught up his armful, transferring it, on the doorstep, to a
cab which carried him to his rooms. He dined alone, hurriedly, at
a small restaurant near by, and returned at once to his books.
Late that night, as he undressed, he wondered what contemptible
impulse had forced from him his last words to Alexa Trent. It was
bad enough to interfere with the girl's chances by hanging about
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