| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: by H. P. Lovecraft
Written
Summer 1926
Published February 1928 in Weird Tales, Vol. 11,
No. 2, p. 159-78, 287.
Of such great powers or beings there
may be conceivably a survival... a survival of a hugely remote
period when... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes
and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity...
forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory
and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and
Call of Cthulhu |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Madame Firmiani by Honore de Balzac: or have gone astray during the troubles in Greece,--a country where
registers are not kept as they are in France, and where we have no
consul. Uncertain whether she might not be forced to give up her
fortune, she has lived with the utmost prudence. As for me, I wish to
acquire property which shall be MINE, so as to provide for my wife in
case she is forced to lose hers."
"But why didn't you tell me all this? My dear nephew, you might have
known that I love you enough to pay all your good debts, the debts of
a gentleman. I'll play the traditional uncle now, and revenge myself!"
"Ah! uncle, I know your vengeance! but let me get rich by my own
industry. If you want to do me a real service, make me an allowance of
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