| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from What is Man? by Mark Twain: The principal products of the U.S. is earthquakes and volcanoes.
The Alaginnies are mountains in Philadelphia.
The Rocky Mountains are on the western side of Philadelphia.
Cape Hateras is a vast body of water surrounded by land and
flowing into the Gulf of Mexico.
Mason and Dixon's line is the Equator.
One of the leading industries of the United States is
mollasses, book-covers, numbers, gas, teaching, lumber,
manufacturers, paper-making, publishers, coal.
In Austria the principal occupation is gathering Austrich feathers.
Gibraltar is an island built on a rock.
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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: 1915, I felt I must do something. It was then that I began an
intensive study of other cases of amnesia and visions, feeling
that I might thereby obectivise my trouble and shake clear of
its emotional grip.
However, as before mentioned, the result
was at first almost exactly opposite. It disturbed me vastly to
find that my dreams had been so closely duplicated; especially
since some of the accounts were too early to admit of any geological
knowledge - and therefore of any idea of primitive landscapes
- on the subjects' part.
What is more, many of these accounts
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