| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Memorabilia by Xenophon: and riders, does it not?
Hipp. It does, no doubt.
Soc. Come then, will you explain to us first how you propose to
improve the horses.
Hipp. Ah, that will scarcely form part of my business, I fancy. Each
trooper is personally responsible for the condition of his horse.
Soc. But suppose, when they present themselves and their horses,[5]
you find that some have brought beasts with bad feet or legs or
otherwise infirm, and others such ill-fed jades that they cannot keep
up on the march; others, again, brutes so ill broken and unmanageable
that they will not keep their place in the ranks, and others such
The Memorabilia |
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 Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: need of medical aid that Dr Hartwell was summoned at once. As
the doctor put him to bed he could only mutter over and over again,
'But what, in God's name, can we do?'
Dr Armitage slept, but
was partly delirious the next day. He made no explanations to
Hartwell, but in his calmer moments spoke of the imperative need
of a long conference with Rice and Morgan. His wilder wanderings
were very startling indeed, including frantic appeals that something
in a boarded-up farmhouse be destroyed, and fantastic references
to some plan for the extirpation of the entire human race and
all animal and vegetable life from the earth by some terrible
The Dunwich Horror |
