| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: the world beautiful .
"Poor Sullenbode!" said Gangnet sighing.
"What! You knew her?"
"I know her through you. By mourning for a noble woman, you show
your own nobility. I think all women are noble."
"There may be millions of noble women, but there's only one
Sullenbode."
"If Sullenbode can exist," said Gangnet, "the world cannot be a bad
place."
"Change the subject.... The world's hard and cruel, and I am thankful
to be leaving it."
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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 In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: abominable legend, it equally depicts that something bitter and
energetic which distinguishes Paumotuan man.
The archipelago is divided between two main religions, Catholic and
Mormon. They front each other proudly with a false air of
permanence; yet are but shapes, their membership in a perpetual
flux. The Mormon attends mass with devotion: the Catholic sits
attentive at a Mormon sermon, and to-morrow each may have
transferred allegiance. One man had been a pillar of the Church of
Rome for fifteen years; his wife dying, he decided that must be a
poor religion that could not save a man his wife, and turned
Mormon. According to one informant, Catholicism was the more
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