| 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: before the victim collapsed in a noxious heap. There seemed to
be only this one animal, and after a moment of listening the ghouls
tapped Carter as a signal to proceed again. As before, they were
obliged to aid him; and he was glad to leave that place of carnage
where the ghast's uncouth remains sprawled invisible in the blackness.
At last the ghouls brought their companion to a halt; and feeling
above him, Carter realised that the great stone trap door was
reached at last. To open so vast a thing completely was not to
be thought of, but the ghouls hoped to get it up just enough to
slip the gravestone under as a prop, and permit Carter to escape
through the crack. They themselves planned to descend again and
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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 Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: of the Consuls, was told there that I wasn't at home but the woman
of the house looked so funny that he didn't know what to make of
it. Therefore, after some hesitation, he took the liberty to
inquire at this house, too, and being told that I couldn't be
disturbed, had made up his mind not to go on board without actually
setting his eyes on me and hearing from my own lips that nothing
was changed as to sailing orders.
"There is nothing changed, Dominic," I said.
"No change of any sort?" he insisted, looking very sombre and
speaking gloomily from under his black moustaches in the dim glow
of the alabaster lamp hanging above his head. He peered at me in
The Arrow of Gold |
