| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: to arrange for those odd travels, and special courses at American
and European Universities, which evoked so much comment during
the next few years.
I did not at any time suffer from a lack
of learned contacts, for my case had a mild celebrity among the
psychologists of the period. I was lectured upon as a typical
example of secondary personality - even though I seemed to puzzle
the lecturers now and then with some bizarre symptoms or some
queer trace of carefully veiled mockery.
Of real friendliness,
however, I encountered little. Something in my aspect and speech
Shadow out of Time |
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 Massimilla Doni by Honore de Balzac: ought to protect by making her his mistress," exclaimed the Frenchman.
"But you could not love us as we wish to be loved," said the Duchess,
smiling. "We want to be free. But the liberty I crave is not your
ignoble and middle-class liberalism, which would kill all art. I ask,"
said she, in a tone that thrilled through the box,--"that is to say, I
would ask,--that each Italian republic should be resuscitated, with
its nobles, its citizens, its special privileges for each caste. I
would have the old aristocratic republics once more with their
intestine warfare and rivalry that gave birth to the noblest works of
art, that created politics, that raised up the great princely houses.
By extending the action of one government over a vast expanse of
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