| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: thing was not his fault; he never hurt me, or any one else;
he was the soul of honor. But it shows how he took it."
"If you wish to prove that my poor brother, in his
last moments, was out of his head, we can only say that under
the melancholy circumstances nothing was more possible.
But confine yourself to that."
"He was quite in his right mind," said Newman, with gentle but
dangerous doggedness; "I have never seen him so bright and clever.
It was terrible to see that witty, capable fellow dying such a death.
You know I was very fond of your brother. And I have further proof
of his sanity," Newman concluded.
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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: Warfare, largely
civil for the last few millennia though sometimes waged against
reptilian or octopodic invaders, or against the winged, star-headed
Old Ones who centered in the antarctic, was infrequent though
infinitely devastating. An enormous army, using camera-like weapons
which produced tremendous electrical effects, was kept on hand
for purposes seldom mentioned, but obviously connected with the
ceaseless fear of the dark, windowless elder ruins and of the
great sealed trap-doors in the lowest subterranean levels.
This
fear of the basalt ruins and trap-doors was largely a matter of
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