| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Recruit by Honore de Balzac: game of loto, and offered to find the box, on the ground that she
alone knew where it was, and then she disappeared.
"I am suffocating, my poor Brigitte," she cried, wiping the tears that
gushed from her eyes, now brilliant with fever, anxiety, and
impatience. "He does not come," she moaned, looking round the room
prepared for her son. "Here alone I can breathe, I can live! A few
minutes more and he MUST be here; for I know he is living. I am
certain of it, my heart says so. Don't you hear something, Brigitte? I
would give the rest of my life to know at this moment whether he were
still in prison, or out in the free country. Oh! I wish I could stop
thinking--"
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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 At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: found monstrous barrel-shaped fossil of wholly unknown nature;
probably vegetable unless overgrown specimen of unknown marine
radiata. Tissue evidently preserved by mineral salts. Tough as
leather, but astonishing flexibility retained in places. Marks
of broken-off parts at ends and around sides. Six feet end to
end, three and five-tenths feet central diameter, tapering to
one foot at each end. Like a barrel with five bulging ridges in
place of staves. Lateral breakages, as of thinnish stalks, are
at equator in middle of these ridges. In furrows between ridges
are curious growths - combs or wings that fold up and spread out
like fans. All greatly damaged but one, which gives almost seven-foot
At the Mountains of Madness |
