| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Stories From the Old Attic by Robert Harris: actually know how to think."
"What kind of a jerk would fire people like that?" someone asked.
And so it was that the new Vice President for Design Concepts was
invited to take his skills to some other company, even though he
could recite the exact cost of every part of every car the
corporation made.
The Wall and the Bridge
In the high country of a far away land there once stood a massive
wall, blocking the pass between two mountains. Just below the wall
was a path leading around the mountains--a path made possible by
a bridge connecting it across a deep chasm directly in front of
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: myths and case histories, to expect. As mental barriers wore down,
I beheld great masses of thin vapour in various parts of the building
and in the streets below.
These steadily grew more solid and
distinct, till at last I could trace their monstrous outlines
with uncomfortable ease. They seemed to be enormous, iridescent
cones, about ten feet high and ten feet wide at the base, and
made up of some ridgy, scaly, semi-elastic matter. From their
apexes projected four flexible, cylindrical members, each a foot
thick, and of a ridgy substance like that of the cones themselves.
These members were sometimes contracted almost to nothing, and
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