| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Beauty and The Beast by Bayard Taylor: sweeter voice spoke through their clasped hands. Perhaps he kissed
hers; she did not know; she only heard herself murmur:
"Good-bye! Pray go on; I will rest here."
She sat down upon a bank by the roadside, turned away her head, and
closed her eyes. It was long before the tumult in her nature
subsided. If she reflected, with a sense of relief, "nothing was
said," the thought immediately followed, "but all is known." It
was impossible,--yes, clearly impossible; and then came such a wild
longing, such an assertion of the right and truth and justice of
love, as made her seem a miserable coward, the veriest slave of
conventionalities.
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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: headland in the enemy's rear; after which the fight was short-lived
indeed. Attacked from both sides, the noisome flounderers were
rapidly cut to pieces or pushed into the sea, till by evening
the ghoulish chiefs agreed that the island was again clear of
them. The hostile galley, meanwhile, had disappeared; and it was
decided that the evil jagged rock had better be evacuated before
any overwhelming horde of lunar horrors might be assembled and
brought against the victors.
So by night Pickman and Carter
assembled all the ghouls and counted them with care, finding that
over a fourth had been lost in the day's battles. The wounded
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