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: consisting of a kind of clicking and scraping.
The objects had
no clothing, but wore satchels or knapsacks suspended from the
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
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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 Somebody's Little Girl by Martha Young: sorry for the lady that she squeezed down ever so softly on her hand
that held her own still so tightly.
Sister Helen Vincula wiped her eyes.
The lady kept looking away off, but still held Bessie Bell's hand in
hers.
Then Sister Helen Vincula said: ``We are going away to-morrow.''
But the lady held fast to Bessie Bell's hand and said: ``Not this
little girl.''
``Oh,'' said Sister Helen Vincula, ``but she is in my charge, and so
what can I do!''
And the lady said: ``I cannot let her leave me--not ever.''
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