| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the rank I had won by my combats the first few weeks
of my captivity among them.
Seeing the favorable disposition of the warriors toward
Tars Tarkas, as well as toward me, I grasped the opportunity
to enlist them in my cause against Zodanga. I told Tars Tarkas
the story of my adventures, and in a few words had explained
to him the thought I had in mind.
"John Carter has made a proposal," he said, addressing
the council, "which meets with my sanction. I shall put it
to you briefly. Dejah Thoris, the Princess of Helium, who
was our prisoner, is now held by the jeddak of Zodanga,
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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: to manage her, but were beaten about by the storm of April 2nd,
From that time till his rescue on the 12th the man remembers little,
and he does not even recall when William Briden, his companion,
died. Briden's death reveals no apparent cause, and was probably
due to excitement or exposure. Cable advices from Dunedin report
that the Alert was well known there as an island trader, and bore
an evil reputation along the waterfront, It was owned by a curious
group of half-castes whose frequent meetings and night trips to
the woods attracted no little curiosity; and it had set sail in
great haste just after the storm and earth tremors of March 1st.
Our Auckland correspondent gives the Emma and her crew an excellent
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