| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: Almost eight feet tall, and carrying a cheap new valise from Osborne's
general store, this dark and goatish gargoyle appeared one day
in Arkham in quest of the dreaded volume kept under lock and key
at the college library - the hideous Necronomicon of the mad Arab
Abdul Alhazred in Olaus Wormius' Latin version, as printed in
Spain in the seventeenth century. He had never seen a city before,
but had no thought save to find his way to the university grounds;
where indeed, he passed heedlessly by the great white-fanged watchdog
that barked with unnatural fury and enmity, and tugged frantically
at its stout chaim.
Wilbur had with him the priceless but imperfect
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: her, it was probable Lambert haveing quarterd in that house, as
indeed he had, some of his servants might have hid that gold; and
if so, it was lawfullie mine; bot if she could make it appeare it
belongd to her, I should immediatlie give it her. The poore
gentlewoman told me with many teares, that her husband being none
of the frugallest men (and indeed he was a spendthrift), she had
hid that gold without his, knowledge, to make use of it as she
had occasion, especiallie when she lay in; and conjured me, as I
lovd the King (for whom her husband and she had suffered much),
not to detaine her gold. She said, if there was either more or
lesse then foure and tuentie whole peeces, and two halfe ones, it
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