| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: - can furnish the funds.
I can get together a dozen miners for
the heavy digging - the blackfellows would be of no use, for I've
found that they have an almost maniacal fear of this particular
spot. Boyle and I are saying nothing to others, for you very obviously
ought to have precedence in any discoveries or credit.
The place
can be reached from Pilbarra in about four days by motor tractor
- which we'd need for our apparatus. It is somewhat west and south
of Warburton's path of 1873, and 100 miles southeast of Joanna
Spring. We could float things up the De Grey River instead of
Shadow out of Time |
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 Somebody's Little Girl by Martha Young: Bessie Bell, they are not Sisters like Sister Helen Vincula and the
Sisters that you know, but they are just what they say they are--
just own dear sisters.''
Then came to Bessie Bell that knowledge that we are often times slow
in getting: she knew all of a sudden--that she did not know
everything. She did not know all, even about Sisters.
Because, in all that she knew or remembered or wondered about, there
was nothing at all about that strange thing that all the little
children, but herself, knew so well about--''Own-dear-sisters.''
Another strange thing came into her mind, brought into her mind
partly by her ears, but mostly by her eyes: There were not in this
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