| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: had ever accorded him.
That night Carter camped in a roadside
meadow beneath a great lygath-tree to which he tied his yak, and
in the morning resumed his northward pilgrimage. At about ten
o'clock he reached the small-domed village of Urg, where traders
rest and miners tell their tales, and paused in its taverns till
noon. It is here that the great caravan road turns west toward
Selarn, but Carter kept on north by the quarry road. All the afternoon
he followed that rising road, which was somewhat narrower than
the great highway, and which now led through a region with more
rocks than tilled fields. And by evening the low hills on his
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
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 Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: moment later, had overtaken his look, and found a place at the
girl's side. She bent forward, speaking eagerly; he leaned back,
listening, with the depreciatory smile which acted as a filter to
flattery, enabling him to swallow the strongest doses without
apparent grossness of appetite. Julia winced at her own
definition of the smile.
On the way home, in the deserted winter dusk, Westall surprised
his wife by a sudden boyish pressure of her arm. "Did I open
their eyes a bit? Did I tell them what you wanted me to?" he
asked gaily.
Almost unconsciously, she let her arm slip from his. "What I
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