| 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: Industry, highly mechanised, demanded but little time from each
citizen; and the abundant leisure was filled with intellectual
and aesthetic activities of various sorts.
The sciences were
carried to an unbelievable height of development, and art was
a vital part of life, though at the period of my dreams it had
passed its crest and meridian. Technology was enormously stimulated
through the constant struggle to survive, and to keep in existence
the physical fabric of great cities, imposed by the prodigious
geologic upheavals of those primal days.
Crime was surprisingly
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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 Animal Farm by George Orwell: "memoranda". These were large sheets of paper which had to be closely
covered with writing, and as soon as they were so covered, they were burnt
in the furnace. This was of the highest importance for the welfare of the
farm, Squealer said. But still, neither pigs nor dogs produced any food by
their own labour; and there were very many of them, and their appetites
were always good.
As for the others, their life, so far as they knew, was as it had always
been. They were generally hungry, they slept on straw, they drank from the
pool, they laboured in the fields; in winter they were troubled by the
cold, and in summer by the flies. Sometimes the older ones among them
racked their dim memories and tried to determine whether in the early
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