| 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: cleaning tells of older and more terrible dwellers long forgotten,
and toward this spot he hastened. He traced his way by the grotesque
fungi, which always seem better nourished as one approaches the
dread circle where elder beings danced and sacrificed. Finally
the great light of those thicker fungi revealed a sinister green
and grey vastness pushing up through the roof of the forest and
out of sight. This was the nearest of the great ring of stones,
and Carter knew he was close to the Zoog village. Renewing his
fluttering sound, he waited patiently; and was at last rewarded
by an impression of many eyes watching him. It was the Zoogs,
for one sees their weird eyes long before one can discern their
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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 A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: the other side of the valley, due south, some five miles distant. It
was a slender, inaccessible, dizzy spire of black rock, the angles of
which were too steep to retain snow. A great upward - curving horn
of rock sprang out from its topmost pinnacle. For a long time it
constituted their clues landmark.
The whole ridge gradually became saturated with moisture. The
surface soil was spongy, and rested on impermeable rock; it breathed
in the damp mists by night, and breathed them out again by day, under
Branchspell's rays. The walking grew first unpleasant, then
difficult, and finally dangerous. None of the party could
distinguish firm ground from bog. Sullenbode sank up to her waist in
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