| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: stupendous bulk of the horror; whilst the conformation of the
tracks seemed to argue a passage in two directions, as if the
moving mountain had come from Cold Spring Glen and returned to
it along the same path. At the base of the hill a thirty-foot
swath of crushed shrubbery saplings led steeply upwards, and the
seekers gasped when they saw that even the most perpendicular
places did not deflect the inexorable trail. Whatever the horror
was, it could scale a sheer stony cliff of almost complete verticality;
and as the investigators climbed round to the hill's summit by
safer routes they saw that the trail ended - or rather, reversed
- there.
The Dunwich Horror |
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 Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Nor the grasshopper, Pah-puk-keena;
Nor the mighty caterpillar,
Way-muk-kwana, with the bear-skin,
King of all the caterpillars!"
On the tree-tops near the cornfields
Sat the hungry crows and ravens,
Kahgahgee, the King of Ravens,
With his band of black marauders.
And they laughed at Hiawatha,
Till the tree-tops shook with laughter,
With their melancholy laughter,
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