| 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: the alien speech could be played as on a musical instrument.
The
Great Race's members were immense rugose cones ten feet high,
and with head and other organs attached to foot-thick, distensible
limbs spreading from the apexes. They spoke by the clicking or
scraping of huge paws or claws attached to the end of two of their
four limbs, and walked by the expansion and contraction of a viscous
layer attached to their vast, ten-foot bases.
When the captive
mind's amazement and resentment had worn off, and when - assuming
that it came from a body vastly different from the Great Race's
 Shadow out of Time |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another
and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly
through the Pass, a wild howling began, which seemed to come
from all over the country, as far as the imagination could
grasp it through the gloom of the night.
At the first howl the horses began to strain and rear, but the driver
spoke to them soothingly, and they quieted down, but shivered
and sweated as though after a runaway from sudden fright.
Then, far off in the distance, from the mountains on each side
of us began a louder and a sharper howling, that of wolves,
which affected both the horses and myself in the same way.
 Dracula |