| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: I have declared my resolution to you, and I am no coward to bend beneath words.
Leave me; I am inexorable."
"It is well. I go; but remember, I shall be with you on your wedding-night."
I started forward and exclaimed, "Villain! Before you sign my death-warrant,
be sure that you are yourself safe."
I would have seized him, but he eluded me and quitted the housew
ith precipitation. In a few moments I saw him in his boat,
which shot across the waters with an arrowy swiftness
and was soon lost amidst the waves.
All was again silent, but his words rang in my ears. I burned with rage
to pursue the murderer of my peace and precipitate him into the ocean.
 Frankenstein |
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 Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: various persons covering the same period as that in which young
Wilcox had had his strange visitations. My uncle, it seems, had
quickly instituted a prodigiously far-flung body of inquires amongst
nearly all the friends whom he could question without impertinence,
asking for nightly reports of their dreams, and the dates of any
notable visions for some time past. The reception of his request
seems to have varied; but he must, at the very least, have received
more responses than any ordinary man could have handled without
a secretary. This original correspondence was not preserved, but
his notes formed a thorough and really significant digest. Average
people in society and business - New England's traditional "salt
 Call of Cthulhu |