| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from King James Bible: Cornelius waited for them, and he had called together his kinsmen and
near friends.
ACT 10:25 And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down
at his feet, and worshipped him.
ACT 10:26 But Peter took him up, saying, Stand up; I myself also am a
man.
ACT 10:27 And as he talked with him, he went in, and found many that
were come together.
ACT 10:28 And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful
thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of
another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Juana by Honore de Balzac: Juana turned pale. She freed herself from her mother and sat down once
more in her arm-chair.
"Who are you, monsieur?" repeated the Marana, addressing Diard.
"Madame, I am at present only the quartermaster of the 6th of the
line. But for such a wife I have the heart to make myself a marshal of
France. My name is Pierre-Francois Diard. My father was provost of
merchants. I am not--"
"But, at least, you are an honest man, are you not?" cried the Marana,
interrupting him. "If you please the Signorina Juana di Mancini, you
can marry her and be happy together.--Juana," she continued in a grave
tone, "in becoming the wife of a brave and worthy man remember that
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Daisy Miller by Henry James: exhilarated by this sudden revulsion from cautious criticism.
He turned away toward the entrance of the place, but, as he did so,
he heard Daisy speak again.
"Why, it was Mr. Winterbourne! He saw me, and he cuts me!"
What a clever little reprobate she was, and how smartly she played
at injured innocence! But he wouldn't cut her. Winterbourne came
forward again and went toward the great cross. Daisy had got up;
Giovanelli lifted his hat. Winterbourne had now begun to think
simply of the craziness, from a sanitary point of view, of a delicate
young girl lounging away the evening in this nest of malaria.
What if she WERE a clever little reprobate? that was no reason
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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: of the Necronomicon was reluctant to discuss. The great mountain
chain was tremendously long - starting as a low range at Luitpold
Land on the east coast of Weddell Sea and virtually crossing the
entire continent. That really high part stretched in a mighty
arc from about Latitude 82°, E. Longitude 60° to Latitude 70°,
E. Longitude 115°, with its concave side toward our camp and its
seaward end in the region of that long, ice-locked coast whose
hills were glimpsed by Wilkes and Mawson at the antarctic circle.
Yet even more monstrous exaggerations of nature seemed disturbingly
close at hand. I have said that these peaks are higher than the
Himalayas, but the sculptures forbid me to say that they are earth’s
At the Mountains of Madness |
