| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: SALOME. Laisse-moi baiser ta bouche, Iokanaan.
IOKANAAN. N'avez-vous pas peur, fille d'Herodias? Ne vous ai-je
pas dit que j'avais entendu dans le palais le battement des ailes de
l'ange de la mort, et l'ange n'est-il pas venu?
SALOME. Laisse-moi baiser ta bouche.
IOKANAAN. Fille d'adultere, il n'y a qu'un homme qui puisse te
sauver. C'est celui dont je t'ai parle. Allez le chercher. Il est
dans un bateau sur la mer de Galilee, et il parle e ses disciples.
Agenouillez-vous au bord de la mer, et appelez-le par son nom.
Quand il viendra vers vous, et il vient vers tous ceux qui
l'appellent, prosternez-vous e ses pieds et demandez-lui la
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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 Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: We had an aëroplane with us, and
my son Wingate would often go up to different heights and scan
the sand-and-rock waste for signs of dim, large-scale outlines
- either differences of level or trails of scattered blocks. His
results were virtually negative; for whenever he would one day
think he had glimpsed some significant trend, he would on his
next trip find the impression replaced by another equally insubstantial
- a result of the shifting, wind-blown sand.
One or two of these
ephemeral suggestions, though, affected me queerly and disagreeably.
They seemed, after a fashion, to dovetail horribly with something
Shadow out of Time |
