| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: is not used to it. And that reminds me that I must expect trouble tomorrow.
All you fellows will want to kiss her."
"And Betty is going to be maid of honor. She, too, will have her troubles,"
remarked Col. Zane.
"Think of that, Alfred," said Isaac "A chance to kiss the two prettiest girls
on the border--a chance of a lifetime."
"It is customary, is it not?" said Alfred coolly.
"Yes, it's a custom, if you can catch the girl," answered Col. Zane.
Betty's face flushed at Alfred's cool assumption. How dared he? In spite of
her will she could not resist the power that compelled her to look at him. As
plainly as if it were written there, she saw in his steady blue eyes the light
Betty Zane |
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 At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: two hours later, when Lake spoke of descending and starting a
small-scale ice-melting and bore at a point some three hundred
miles away from us. Six hours after that a second and very excited
message told of the frantic, beaver-like work whereby a shallow
shaft had been sunk and blasted, culminating in the discovery
of slate fragments with several markings approximately like the
one which had caused the original puzzlement.
Three hours later
a brief bulletin announced the resumption of the flight in the
teeth of a raw and piercing gale; and when I dispatched a message
of protest against further hazards, Lake replied curtly that his
At the Mountains of Madness |
