| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: VI - history and present tendencies of economics - for juniors
and a few sophomores. I began to see strange shapes before my
eyes, and to feel that I was in a grotesque room other than the
classroom.
My thoughts and speech wandered from my subject,
and the students saw that something was gravely amiss. Then I
slumped down, unconscious, in my chair, in a stupor from which
no one could arouse me. Nor did my rightful faculties again look
out upon the daylight of our normal world for five years, four
months, and thirteen days.
It is, of course, from others that
Shadow out of Time |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant by Guy De Maupassant: The old woman took her hands out of the water and asked with
sudden sympathy: "Is she as bad as all that?"
"The doctor says she will not last till morning."
"Then she certainly is very bad!" Honore hesitated, for he wanted
to make a few preliminary remarks before coming to his proposal,
but as he could hit upon nothing, he made up his mind suddenly.
"How much are you going to ask to stop with her till the end? You
know that I am not rich, and I cannot even afford to keep a
servant-girl. It is just that which has brought my poor mother to
this state, too much work and fatigue! She used to work for ten,
in spite of her ninety-two years. You don't find any made of that
|
