| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson: were all in the old high dress; the ladies were all native;
the men, with the exception of Seumanu, all white.
It was quite a pleasant party, and while we were writing, we
had a bird's-eye view of the public reception of the Chief
Justice. The best part of it were some natives in war array;
with blacked faces, turbans, tapa kilts, and guns, they
looked very manly and purposelike. No, the best part was
poor old drunken Joe, the Portuguese boatman, who seemed to
think himself specially charged with the reception, and ended
by falling on his knees before the Chief Justice on the end
of the pier and in full view of the whole town and bay. The
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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 Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: top of the conical trunk. They commonly carried their head and
its supporting member at the level of the cone top, although it
was frequently raised or lowered.
The other three great members
tended to rest downward at the sides of the cone, contracted to
about five feet each when not in use. From their rate of reading,
writing, and operating their machines - those on the tables seemed
somehow connected with thought - I concluded that their intelligence
was enormously greater than man's.
Aftenvard I saw them everywhere;
swarming in all the great chambers and corridors, tending monstrous
Shadow out of Time |
