| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: some unifying and justifying reason, the erratic flat flashes
and streaks and glares of traffic that fretted to and fro
overhead. A voice sang intermittently and a banjo tinkled,
but remotely enough to be indistinct and agreeable.
"After all," Sir Richmond began abruptly," the search for
some sort of sexual modus vivendi is only a means to an end.
One does not want to live for sex but only through sex. The
main thing in my life has always been my work. This
afternoon, under the Maidenhead influence, I talked too much
of sex. I babbled. Of things one doesn't usually . . . "
"It was very illuminating," said the doctor.
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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 Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: and lumberingly, their tall mitres nodding thousands of feet in
the aft. The carven mountains, then, had not stayed squatting
in that rigid semicircle north of Inquanok, with right hands uplifted.
They had duties to perform, and were not remiss. But it was horrible
that they never spoke, and never even made a sound in walking.
Meanwhile the ghoul that was Pickman had glibbered an order
to the night-gaunts, and the whole army soared higher into the
air. Up toward the stars the grotesque column shot, till nothing
stood out any longer against the sky; neither the grey granite
ridge that was still nor the carven mitred mountains that walked.
All was blackness beneath as the fluttering legion surged northward
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