| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: receiving tomb, where a small pool of red lay on the concrete
just outside the gate. A fainter trail led away toward the woods,
but it soon gave out.
The next night devils danced on the roofs
of Arkham, and unnatural madness howled in the wind. Through the
fevered town had crept a curse which some said was greater than
the plague, and which some whispered was the embodied daemon-soul
of the plague itself. Eight houses were entered by a nameless
thing which strewed red death in its wake -- in all, seventeen
maimed and shapeless remnants of bodies were left behind by the
voiceless, sadistic monster that crept abroad. A few persons had
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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 Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: sumed that he was dead. He felt a throb of relief,
of which he was ashamed, but he could not down it.
He did not know what it was that was so alive and
triumphant within him: love, or pity, or the natural
instinct of the decent male to shelter and protect.
Whatever it was, it was dominant.
"Do you have to work hard?" he asked.
"Pretty hard, I guess. I expect to."
"And you don't get any pay?"
"That's all right; I don't expect to get any,"
said she, and there was bitterness in her voice.
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