| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: sanguine man of middle age, sensual, vulgar, humorous, and,
if I judged rightly, not ill-disposed by nature. But the
sparkle that came into his eye as he observed me enter,
warned me to expect the worst.
'Is this your late mistress?' he inquired of the slaves; and
when he had learnt it was so, instantly dismissed them.
'Now, my dear,' said he, 'I am a plain man: none of your
damned Spaniards, but a true blue, hard-working, honest
Englishman. My name is Caulder.'
'Thank you, sir,' said I, and curtsied very smartly as I had
seen the servants.
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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 Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: Far above the clouds they flew, till at last there lay beneath
them those fabled summits which the folk of Inquanok have never
seen, and which lie always in high vortices of gleaming mist.
Carter beheld them very plainly as they passed below, and saw
upon their topmost peaks strange caves which made him think of
those on Ngranek; but he did not question his captor about these
things when he noticed that both the man and the horse-headed
Shantak appeared oddly fearful of them, hurrying past nervously
and shewing great tension until they were left far in the rear.
The Shantak now flew lower, revealing beneath the canopy of
cloud a grey barren plain whereon at great distances shone little
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