| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: him, then into Lawson's, and if ever in Duane's life he beheld
relief it was then. That was all Duane needed to know, but he
meant to find out more if he could.
"Who're you?" asked Duane, quietly.
"Bo Snecker," he said.
"What'd you hide here for?"
He appeared to grow sullen.
"Reckoned I'd be as safe in Longstreth's as anywheres."
"Ranger, what'll you do with him?" Lawson queried, as if
uncertain, now the capture was made.
"I'll see to that," replied Duane, and he pushed Snecker in
The Lone Star Ranger |
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: the Antarctic Ocean, and it is likely that they came not long
after the matter forming the moon was wrenched from the neighboring
South Pacific. According to one of the sculptured maps the whole
globe was then under water, with stone cities scattered farther
and farther from the antarctic as aeons passed. Another map shows
a vast bulk of dry land around the south pole, where it is evident
that some of the beings made experimental settlements, though
their main centers were transferred to the nearest sea bottom.
Later maps, which display the land mass as cracking and drifting,
and sending certain detached parts northward, uphold in a striking
way the theories of continental drift lately advanced by Taylor,
At the Mountains of Madness |
