| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: that debris-cluttered corridor. Now and then I could make out
carvings on the ages-tained walls - some familiar, others seemingly
added since the period of my dreams. Since this was a subterrene
house - connecting highway, there were no archways save when the
route led through the lower levels of various buildings.
At
some of these intersections I turned aside long enough to look
down well-remembered corridors and into well-remembered rooms.
Twice only did I find any radical changes from what I had dreamed
of - and in one of these cases I could trace the sealed-up outlines
of the archway I remembered.
 Shadow out of Time |
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 St. Ives by Robert Louis Stevenson: church, an exchange of flowers and vows over the garden wall, a
silly schoolmate for a confidante, a chaise and four, and the most
immediate and perfect disenchantment on the part of the little
lady. 'And there is nothing to be done!' she wailed in conclusion.
'My error is irretrievable, I am quite forced to that conclusion.
O, Monsieur de Saint-Yves! who would have thought that I could have
been such a blind, wicked donkey!'
I should have said before - only that I really do not know when it
came in - that we had been overtaken by the two post-boys, Rowley
and Mr. Bellamy, which was the hawbuck's name, bestriding the four
post-horses; and that these formed a sort of cavalry escort, riding
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