| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: Other Gods, the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep. Finally, after an
unguessed span of hours or days, the great stone door swung wide
again, and Carter was shoved down the stairs and out into the
red-litten streets of that fearsome city. It was night on the
moon, and all through the town were stationed slaves bearing torches.
In a detestable square a sort of procession was formed; ten
of the toad-things and twenty-four almost human torch-bearers,
eleven on either side, and one each before and behind. Carter
was placed in the middle of the line; five toad-things ahead and
five behind, and one almost-human torch-bearer on either side
of him. Certain of the toad-things produced disgustingly carven
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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 Night and Day by Virginia Woolf: that she was glad to find him, and then that she blamed herself for
being late.
"Why did you never tell me? I didn't know there was this," she
remarked, alluding to the lake, the broad green space, the vista of
trees, with the ruffled gold of the Thames in the distance and the
Ducal castle standing in its meadows. She paid the rigid tail of the
Ducal lion the tribute of incredulous laughter.
"You've never been to Kew?" Denham remarked.
But it appeared that she had come once as a small child, when the
geography of the place was entirely different, and the fauna included
certainly flamingoes and, possibly, camels. They strolled on,
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