| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: Expedition which I am so anxious to dissuade from its purposes.
I had better give the messages literally as Lake sent them, and
as our base operator McTighe translated them from the pencil shorthand:
"Fowler makes discovery of highest importance in sandstone and
limestone fragments from blasts. Several distinct triangular striated
prints like those in Archaean slate, proving that source survived
from over six hundred million years ago to Comanchian times without
more than moderate morphological changes and decrease in average
size. Comanchian prints apparently more primitive or decadent,
if anything, than older ones. Emphasize importance of discovery
in press. Will mean to biology what Einstein has meant to mathematics
At the Mountains of Madness |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Middlemarch by George Eliot: any more than sisters."
"I don't make myself disagreeable; it is you who find me so.
Disagreeable is a word that describes your feelings and not my actions."
"I think it describes the smell of grilled bone."
"Not at all. It describes a sensation in your little nose associated
with certain finicking notions which are the classics of Mrs. Lemon's
school. Look at my mother you don't see her objecting to everything
except what she does herself. She is my notion of a pleasant woman."
"Bless you both, my dears, and don't quarrel," said Mrs. Vincy,
with motherly cordiality. "Come, Fred, tell us all about the new doctor.
How is your uncle pleased with him?"
Middlemarch |
