| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from A Man of Business by Honore de Balzac: "I can well believe it," said La Palferine. "She is the /bella
Imperia/ of our day."
"With her rough skin!" exclaimed Malaga; "so rough, that she ruins
herself in bran baths!"
"Croizeau spoke with a coach-builder's admiration of the sumptuous
furniture provided by the amorous Denisart as a setting for his fair
one, describing it all in detail with diabolical complacency for
Antonia's benefit," continued Desroches. "The ebony chests inlaid with
mother-of-pearl and gold wire, the Brussels carpets, a mediaeval
bedstead worth three thousand francs, a Boule clock, candelabra in the
four corners of the dining-room, silk curtains, on which Chinese
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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 The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: leaders; telling what he knew of the cold waste wherein Kadath
stands and of the monstrous Shantaks and the mountains carven
into double-headed images which guard it. He spoke of the fear
of Shantaks for night-gaunts, and of how the vast hippocephalic
birds fly screaming from the black burrows high up on the gaunt
grey peaks that divide Inquanok from hateful Leng. He spoke, too,
of the things he had learned concerning night-gaunts from the
frescoes in the windowless monastery of the High-Priest Not To
Be Described; how even the Great Ones fear them, and how their
ruler is not the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep at all, but hoary
and immemorial Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss.
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
