| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: of the men, and was prepared for the gruesome thrill which would
attend the uncovering of centuried grave-secrets; but for the
first time West’s new timidity conquered his natural curiosity,
and he betrayed his degenerating fibre by ordering the masonry
left intact and plastered over. Thus it remained till that final
hellish night; part of the walls of the secret laboratory. I speak
of West’s decadence, but must add that it was a purely mental
and intangible thing. Outwardly he was the same to the last --
calm, cold, slight, and yellow-haired, with spectacled blue eyes
and a general aspect of youth which years and fears seemed never
to change. He seemed calm even when he thought of that clawed
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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 Meno by Plato: BOY: Clearly, Socrates, it will be double.
SOCRATES: Do you observe, Meno, that I am not teaching the boy anything,
but only asking him questions; and now he fancies that he knows how long a
line is necessary in order to produce a figure of eight square feet; does
he not?
MENO: Yes.
SOCRATES: And does he really know?
MENO: Certainly not.
SOCRATES: He only guesses that because the square is double, the line is
double.
MENO: True.
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