| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: it his duty to murder these Christians. Girty has led up to this by cunning,
and now the time is come to let them loose."
"It means death for all."
"I have given up any thought of escaping," said Zeisberger, with the calmness
that had characterized his manner since he returned to the village. "I shall
try to get into the church."
"I'll join you there as soon as I see Williamson."
Jim walked rapidly across the clearing to the cabin where Captain Williamson
had quarters. The frontiersmen stood in groups, watching the savages with an
interest which showed little or no concern.
"I want to see Captain Williamson," said Jim to a frontiersman on guard at the
The Spirit of the Border |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: stages had increased. After all, and in spite of the fancies prompted
by blind emotions, were not most of my phenomena readily explainable?
Any chance might have turned my mind to dark studies during the
amnesia - and then I read the forbidden legends and met the members
of ancient and ill-regarded cults. That, plainly, supplied the
material for the dreams and disturbed feelings which came after
the return of memory.
As for the marginal notes in dream-hieroglyphs
and languages unknown to me, but laid at my door by librarians
- I might easily have picked up a smattering of the tongues during
my secondary state, while the hieroglyphs were doubtless coined
Shadow out of Time |
