| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: with folded arms, and a look that was haughty, unresponsive.
The Indians came forward into the glade, and one of them quickly bound Jim's
hands behind his back. The savages wore a wild, brutish look. A feverish
ferocity, very near akin to insanity, possessed them. They were not quiet a
moment, but ran here and there, for no apparent reason, except, possibly, to
keep in action with the raging fire in their hearts. The cleanliness which
characterized the normal Indian was absent in them; their scant buckskin dress
was bedraggled and stained. They were still drunk with rum and the lust for
blood. Murder gleamed from the glance of their eyes.
"Jake, come over here," said Girty to his renegade friend. "Ain't she a
prize?"
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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 Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: Though Nath-Horthath is chiefly worshipped in Celephais, all the
Great Ones are mentioned in diurnal prayers; and the priest was
reasonably versed in their moods. Like Atal in distant Ulthar,
he strongly advised against any attempts to see them; declaring
that they are testy and capricious, and subject to strange protection
from the mindless Other Gods from Outside, whose soul and messenger
is the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep. Their jealous hiding of the
marvellous sunset city shewed clearly that they did not wish Carter
to reach it, and it was doubtful how they would regard a guest
whose object was to see them and plead before them. No man had
ever found Kadath in the past, and it might be just as well if
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