| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: 'If you don't like it, why do you keep it hanging there? Perhaps your
wife would like to have it,' she said.
He looked up at her with a sudden grin.
'She carted off iverything as was worth taking from th' 'ouse,' he
said. 'But she left THAT!'
'Then why do you keep it? for sentimental reasons?'
'Nay, I niver look at it. I hardly knowed it wor theer. It's bin theer
sin' we come to this place.'
'Why don't you burn it?' she said.
He twisted round again and looked at the enlarged photograph. It was
framed in a brown-and-gilt frame, hideous. It showed a clean-shaven,
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
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 When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: "Tell us how this is done, you silly doctor, who think yourself
so clever."
"It seems that the devil really can quote Scripture," was
Bastin's only comment, while Jacobsen stared before him and
smiled.
Bickley never alluded to the matter, but for days afterwards I
saw him experimenting with paper and chemicals, evidently trying
to discover a form of invisible ink which would appear upon the
application of the hand. As he never said anything about it, I
fear that he failed.
This planchette business had a somewhat curious ending. A few
When the World Shook |
