| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: And Miss Vivian's accepted lover frowned a little.
"I mean that she 's not simple. She 's very strange."
Bernard's frown cleared away in a sudden, almost eager smile.
"Say at once that you dislike her! That will do capitally."
Gordon shook his head, and he, too, almost smiled a little.
"It 's not true. She 's very wonderful. And if I did dislike her,
I should struggle with it. It would never do for me to dislike
your wife!"
After he had gone, when the night was half over, Bernard, lying awake a while,
gave a laugh in the still darkness, as this last sentence came back to him.
On the morrow he saw Blanche, for he went to see Gordon.
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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: might be lurking in the black abysses below the chasm.
My wavering
torch was growing feeble, but I could tell by some obscure memory
when I neared the cleft. The chill blasts of wind and the nauseous
whistling shrieks behind me were for the moment like a merciful
opiate, dulling my imagination to the horror of the yawning gulf
ahead. And then I became aware of the added blasts and whistling
in front of me - tides of abomination surging up through the cleft
itself from depths unimagined and unimaginable.
Now, indeed,
the essence of pure nightmare was upon me. Sanity departed - and,
Shadow out of Time |
