| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare: I die for treason, boy, and never knew it.
Yet let thy faith as spotless be as mine,
And Cromwell's virtues in thy face shall shine.
Come, go along and see me leave my breath,
And I'll leave thee upon the flower of death.
SON.
O, father, I shall die to see that wound;
Your blood being spilt will make my heart to sound.
CROMWELL.
How, boy, not look upon the Axe!
How shall I do then to have my head stroke off?
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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 Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: ramblings, and cuttings which I found? Had my uncle, in his latter
years become credulous of the most superficial impostures? I resolved
to search out the eccentric sculptor responsible for this apparent
disturbance of an old man's peace of mind.
The bas-relief was
a rough rectangle less than an inch thick and about five by six
inches in area; obviously of modern origin. Its designs, however,
were far from modern in atmosphere and suggestion; for, although
the vagaries of cubism and futurism are many and wild, they do
not often reproduce that cryptic regularity which lurks in prehistoric
writing. And writing of some kind the bulk of these designs seemed
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