| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from St. Ives by Robert Louis Stevenson: with his personal friends! My dear sir, pray what do you expect?
Of course if we meet my cousin, or if we meet anybody who took part
in the judicious exhibition of this evening, we are lost; and who's
denying it? To every disguise, however good and safe, there is
always the weak point; you must always take (let us say - and to
take a simile from your own waistcoat pocket) a snuff box-full of
risk. You'll get it just as small with Rowley as with anybody
else. And the long and short of it is, the lad's honest, he likes
me, I trust him; he is my servant, or nobody.'
'He might not accept,' said Romaine.
'I bet you a thousand pounds he does!' cried I. 'But no matter;
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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: reeled in the surging current of the brink. Then with a queer
whistle and plunge the leap was taken, and Carter felt the terrors
of nightmare as earth fell away and the great boat shot silent
and comet-like into planetary space. Never before had he known
what shapeless black things lurk and caper and flounder all through
the aether, leering and grinning at such voyagers as may pass,
and sometimes feeling about with slimy paws when some moving object
excites their curiosity. These are the nameless larvae of the
Other Gods, and like them are blind and without mind, and possessed
of singular hungers and thirsts.
But that offensive galley did
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