| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber: Fanny and Clarence stood there on the sand, in silence, two
ridiculously diminutive figures in that great wilderness of
beauty. I wish I could get to you, somehow, the clear
sparkle of it, the brilliance of it, and yet the peace of
it. They stood there a long while, those two, without
speaking. Then Fanny shut her eyes, and I think her lower
lip trembled just a little. And Clarence patted her hand
just twice.
"I thank you," he said, "in the name of that much-abused
lady known as Nature."
Said Fanny, "I want to scramble up to the top of one 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 Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: dream beneath the sea, known and favoured by a nightmare cult
ready and eager to loose them upon the world whenever another
earthquake shall heave their monstrous stone city again to the
sun and air.
Johansen's voyage had begun just as he told it
to the vice-admiralty. The Emma, in ballast, had cleared Auckland
on February 20th, and had felt the full force of that earthquake-born
tempest which must have heaved up from the sea-bottom the horrors
that filled men's dreams. Once more under control, the ship was
making good progress when held up by the Alert on March 22nd,
and I could feel the mate's regret as he wrote of her bombardment
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