| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Unconscious Comedians by Honore de Balzac: Bixiou.
"Say just a word to them," urged Leon; "tell them to come to-night to
Carabine's, where du Tillet gives a fete apropos of railways,--they
are plundering more than ever on the roads."
"Ah ca! but isn't your cousin from the Pyrenees?" asked the young man,
now become serious.
"Yes," replied Gazonal.
"And you did not vote for us in the last elections?" said the
statesman, looking hard at Gazonal.
"No; but what you have just said in my hearing has bribed me; on the
word of a commandant of the National Guard I'll have your candidate
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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: in that ancient house and shewed him a crude picture which a traveller
had scratched on the clay wall in the old days when men were bolder
and less reluctant to visit Ngranek's higher slopes. The old tavern-keeper's
great-grandfather had heard from his great-grandfather that the
traveller who scratched that picture had climbed Ngranek and seen
the carven face, here drawing it for others to behold, but Carter
had very great doubts, since the large rough features on the wall
were hasty and careless, and wholly overshadowed by a crowd of
little companion shapes in the worst possible taste, with horns
and wings and claws and curling tails.
At last, having gained
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
