| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: of Europe (then the Valusia of primal legend), Asia, the Americas,
and the antarctic continent. Other charts - and most significantly
one in connection with the founding fifty million years ago of
the vast dead city around us - showed all the present continents
well differentiated. And in the latest discoverable specimen -
dating perhaps from the Pliocene Age - the approximate world of
today appeared quite clearly despite the linkage of Alaska with
Siberia, of North America with Europe through Greenland, and of
South America with the antarctic continent through Graham Land.
In the Carboniferous map the whole globe-ocean floor and rifted
land mass alike - bore symbols of the Old Ones’ vast stone cities,
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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 The Gentle Grafter by O. Henry: "'How long have you been sick?' I asked.
"'I was taken down--ow-ouch--last night,' says the Mayor. 'Gimme
something for it, doc, won't you?'
"'Mr. Fiddle,' says I, 'raise the window shade a bit, will you?'
"'Biddle,' says the young man. 'Do you feel like you could eat some
ham and eggs, Uncle James?'
"'Mr. Mayor,' says I, after laying my ear to his right shoulder blade
and listening, 'you've got a bad attack of super-inflammation of the
right clavicle of the harpsichord!'
"'Good Lord!' says he, with a groan, 'Can't you rub something on it,
or set it or anything?'
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