| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum: High Ki."
"Ah!" said Marvel, "I've heard of your High Ki. Who is he?"
The men shook their heads, together and with the same motion.
"We have never seen the glorious High Ki," they answered. "The sight
of their faces is forbidden. None but the Ki and the Ki-Ki has seen
the Supreme Rulers and High Ki."
"I'm getting mixed," said Nerle. "All this about the Ki and the Ki-Ki
and the High Ki makes me dizzy. Let's go on to the city and explore it."
"That is a good suggestion," replied the prince. "Good by, my
friends," he added, addressing the men.
They both bowed, and although they still seemed somewhat frightened
The Enchanted Island of Yew |
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 Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: span closed, the transferred minds would again migrate through
time and space - to another stopping-place in the bodies of the
bulbous vegetable entities of Mercury. But there would be races
after them, clinging pathetically to the cold planet and burrowing
to its horror-filled core, before the utter end.
Meanwhile,
in my dreams, I wrote endlessly in that history of my own age
which I was preparing - half voluntarily and half through promises
of increased library and travel opportunities - for the Great
Race's central archives. The archives were in a colossal subterranean
structure near the city's center, which I came to know well through
Shadow out of Time |
