| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: all sense of touching the ground. I could not go much farther. Just then I
heard a shout. It was close by. I answered, and heard heavy steps. I peered
through the smoky haze. Something dark moved up in the gloom.
"Ho, kid! Thar you are!" I felt a strong arm go round my waist. "Wal, wal!"
That was Herky. His voice sounded glad. It roused a strange eagerness in
me; his rough greeting seemed to bring me back from a distance.
"All wet, but not burned none, I, see. We kinder was afeared. . . . Say,
kid, thet back-fire, now. It was a dandy. It did the biz. Our whiskers was
singed, but we're safe. An, kid, it was your game, played like a man
After that his voice grew faint, and I felt as if I were walking in a
dream.
The Young Forester |
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 Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: on the blank spaces of the walls?
Would the passage at the second
level down, to the hall of the alien minds, be still unchoked
and traversable? In that hall the captive mind of an incredible
entity - a half-plastic denizen of the hollow interior of an unknown
trans-Plutonian planet eighteen million years in the future -
had kept a certain thing which it had modelled from clay.
I
shut my eyes and put my hand to my head in a vain, pitiful effort
to drive these insane dream-fragments from my consciousness. Then,
for the first time, I felt acutely the coolness, motion, and dampness
Shadow out of Time |
