| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde: Park every afternoon and all - well, all - since she has known poor
dear Windermere.
LADY WINDERMERE. Oh, I can't believe it!
DUCHESS OF BERWICK. But it's quite true, my dear. The whole of
London knows it. That is why I felt it was better to come and talk
to you, and advise you to take Windermere away at once to Homburg
or to Aix, where he'll have something to amuse him, and where you
can watch him all day long. I assure you, my dear, that on several
occasions after I was first married, I had to pretend to be very
ill, and was obliged to drink the most unpleasant mineral waters,
merely to get Berwick out of town. He was so extremely
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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 Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: still closer, and winced as if in expectation of a blow.
'Ygnailh...
ygnaiih... thflthkh'ngha.... Yog-Sothoth ...' rang the hideous
croaking out of space. 'Y'bthnk... h'ehye - n'grkdl'lh...'
The
speaking impulse seemed to falter here, as if some frightful psychic
struggle were going on. Henry Wheeler strained his eye at the
telescope, but saw only the three grotesquely silhouetted human
figures on the peak, all moving their arms furiously in strange
gestures as their incantation drew near its culmination. From
what black wells of Acherontic fear or feeling, from what unplumbed
 The Dunwich Horror |