| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: wamps that are spawned in dead cities), and many things intervene
betwixt their gulf and the enchanted wood, including the terrible
kingdom of the Gugs.
The Gugs, hairy and gigantic, once reared
stone circles in that wood and made strange sacrifices to the
Other Gods and the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep, until one night
an abomination of theirs reached the ears of earth's gods and
they were banished to caverns below. Only a great trap door of
stone with an iron ring connects the abyss of the earth-ghouls
with the enchanted wood, and this the Gugs are afraid to open
because of a curse. That a mortal dreamer could traverse their
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: timber to be cut," said Dick.
"Was the timber cut in the mill I saw?"
"No. Buell's just run up that mill. The old one is out here a ways, nearer
Holston."
"Is it possible, Dick, that any of those loggers back there don't know the
Government is being defrauded?"
"Ken, hardly any of them know it, and they wouldn't care if they did. You
see, this forest-preserve business is new out here. Formerly the lumbermen
bought so much land and cut over it--skinned it. Two years ago, when the
National Forests were laid out, the lumbering men--that is, the loggers,
sawmill hands, and so on--found they did not get as much employment as
The Young Forester |
