| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: enemies. They would take advantage of any mistake. There would be
a fine outcry and fuss made by the Opposition, and he would be
sent packing. We must set about this just as we did about the
Coignard affair, the sham Comte de Sainte-Helene; if he had been
the real Comte de Sainte-Helene, we should have been in the wrong
box. We want to be quite sure what we are about."
"Yes, but what you want is a pretty woman," said Mlle. Michonneau
briskly.
"Trompe-la-Mort would not let a woman come near him," said the
detective. "I will tell you a secret--he does not like them."
"Still, I do not see what I can do, supposing that I did agree to
Father Goriot |
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 The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: Other traditions
tell of foul odours near the hill-crowning circles of stone pillars,
and of rushing airy presences to be heard faintly at certain hours
from stated points at the bottom of the great ravines; while still
others try to explain the Devil's Hop Yard - a bleak, blasted
hillside where no tree, shrub, or grass-blade will grow. Then,
too, the natives are mortally afraid of the numerous whippoorwills
which grow vocal on warm nights. It is vowed that the birds are
psychopomps lying in wait for the souls of the dying, and that
they time their eerie cries in unison with the sufferer's struggling
breath. If they can catch the fleeing soul when it leaves the
The Dunwich Horror |
