| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: At intervals food was pushed in, but Carter would not touch it.
What his fate would be, he did not know; but he felt that he was
held for the coming of that frightful soul and messenger of infinity's
Other Gods, the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep. Finally, after an
unguessed span of hours or days, the great stone door swung wide
again, and Carter was shoved down the stairs and out into the
red-litten streets of that fearsome city. It was night on the
moon, and all through the town were stationed slaves bearing torches.
In a detestable square a sort of procession was formed; ten
of the toad-things and twenty-four almost human torch-bearers,
eleven on either side, and one each before and behind. Carter
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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 McTeague by Frank Norris: that had wakened within her, and that shouted and clamored
for recognition. And yet, was it to be feared? Was it
something to be ashamed of? Was it not, after all, natural,
clean, spontaneous? Trina knew that she was a pure girl;
knew that this sudden commotion within her carried with it
no suggestion of vice.
Dimly, as figures seen in a waking dream, these ideas
floated through Trina's mind. It was quite beyond her
to realize them clearly; she could not know what they meant.
Until that rainy day by the shore of the bay Trina had lived
her life with as little self-consciousness as a tree. She
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