| 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: beyond any that men had given them.
Two nights and two days
the galleon sailed over the Cerenerian Sea, sighting no land and
speaking but one other vessel. Then near sunset of the second
day there loomed up ahead the snowy peak of Aran with its gingko-trees
swaying on the lower slope, and Carter knew that they were come
to the land of Ooth-Nargai and the marvellous city of Celephais.
Swiftly there came into sight the glittering minarets of that
fabulous town, and the untarnished marble walls with their bronze
statues, and the great stone bridge where Naraxa joins the sea.
Then rose the gentle hills behind the town, with their groves
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 Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson: shivering, and every now and again he would ask me why I wanted to
marry Uma. "My friend," I was telling myself all day, "you must
not come to be an old gentleman like this."
It might be four in the afternoon, perhaps, when the back door was
thrust slowly open, and a strange old native woman crawled into the
house almost on her belly. She was swathed in black stuff to her
heels; her hair was grey in swatches; her face was tattooed, which
was not the practice in that island; her eyes big and bright and
crazy. These she fixed upon me with a rapt expression that I saw
to be part acting. She said no plain word, but smacked and mumbled
with her lips, and hummed aloud, like a child over its Christmas
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