| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: need of medical aid that Dr Hartwell was summoned at once. As
the doctor put him to bed he could only mutter over and over again,
'But what, in God's name, can we do?'
Dr Armitage slept, but
was partly delirious the next day. He made no explanations to
Hartwell, but in his calmer moments spoke of the imperative need
of a long conference with Rice and Morgan. His wilder wanderings
were very startling indeed, including frantic appeals that something
in a boarded-up farmhouse be destroyed, and fantastic references
to some plan for the extirpation of the entire human race and
all animal and vegetable life from the earth by some terrible
The Dunwich Horror |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The School For Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan: SIR PETER. Old enough--aye there it is--well--well--Lady Teazle,
tho' my life may be made unhappy by your Temper--I'll not be ruined
by your extravagance--
LADY TEAZLE. My extravagance! I'm sure I'm not more extravagant
than a woman of Fashion ought to be.
SIR PETER. No no Madam, you shall throw away no more sums on such
unmeaning Luxury--'Slife to spend as much to furnish your Dressing
Room with Flowers in winter as would suffice to turn the Pantheon
into a Greenhouse, and give a Fete Champetre at Christmas.
LADY TEAZLE. Lord! Sir Peter am I to blame because Flowers are dear
in cold weather? You should find fault with the Climate, and not
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