| 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: keerful ter see whar the big matted-daown swath led arter it leff
the pasturage, but he says he thinks it p'inted towards the glen
rud to the village.
'I tell ye, Mis' Corey, they's suthin' abroad
as hadn't orter be abroad, an' I for one think that black Wilbur
Whateley, as come to the bad end he deserved, is at the bottom
of the breedin' of it. He wa'n't all human hisself, I allus says
to everybody; an' I think he an' Ol' Whateley must a raised suthin'
in that there nailed-up haouse as ain't even so human as he was.
They's allus ben unseen things araound Dunwich - livin' things
- as ain't human an' ain't good fer human folks.
The Dunwich Horror |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll: Suppose that he did so day and night,
THAT would be like the Sea.
I had a vision of nursery-maids;
Tens of thousands passed by me -
All leading children with wooden spades,
And this was by the Sea.
Who invented those spades of wood?
Who was it cut them out of the tree?
None, I think, but an idiot could -
Or one that loved the Sea.
It is pleasant and dreamy, no doubt, to float
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