| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honore de Balzac: possible that a man could make you suffer? Be assured that where, as
you say, other women are common and vulgar, you can only seem
distinguished; your manner of saying things would make a cook-book
interesting."
"You go fast in friendship," she said, in a grave voice which made
d'Arthez extremely uneasy.
The conversation changed; the hour was late, and the poor man of
genius went away contrite for having seemed curious, and for wounding
the sensitive heart of that rare woman who had so strangely suffered.
As for her, she had passed her life in amusing herself with men, and
was another Don Juan in female attire, with this difference: she would
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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 The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: trees an' bushes could make, an' all on a suddent the trees along
the rud begun ter git pushed one side, an' they was a awful stompin'
an' splashin' in the mud. But mind ye, Luther he didn't see nothin'
at all, only just the bendin' trees an' underbrush.
'Then fur
ahead where Bishop's Brook goes under the rud he heerd a awful
creakin' an' strainin' on the bridge, an' says he could tell the
saound o' wood a-startin' to crack an' split. An' all the whiles
he never see a thing, only them trees an' bushes a-bendin'. An'
when the swishin' saound got very fur off - on the rud towards
Wizard Whateley's an' Sentinel Hill - Luther he had the guts ter
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