| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: importance the beings attached to their dead. Our recklessly used
torch now revealed ahead of us the large open cavern where various
ways converged, and we were glad to be leaving those morbid palimpsest
sculptures - almost felt even when scarcely seen-behind. Another
thought which the advent of the cave inspired was the possibility
of losing our pursuer at this bewildering focus of large galleries.
There were several of the blind albino penguins in the open space,
and it seemed clear that their fear of the oncoming entity was
extreme to the point of unaccountability. If at that point we
dimmed our torch to the very lowest limit of traveling need, keeping
it strictly in front of us, the frightened squawking motions of
At the Mountains of Madness |
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 Jolly Corner by Henry James: within a twelvemonth fallen in, renovation at a high advance had
proved beautifully possible.
These were items of property indeed, but he had found himself since
his arrival distinguishing more than ever between them. The house
within the street, two bristling blocks westward, was already in
course of reconstruction as a tall mass of flats; he had acceded,
some time before, to overtures for this conversion - in which, now
that it was going forward, it had been not the least of his
astonishments to find himself able, on the spot, and though without
a previous ounce of such experience, to participate with a certain
intelligence, almost with a certain authority. He had lived his
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