| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: swore to a slow but steady increase in the mysterious hill noises.
On May Eve of 1915 there were tremors which even the Aylesbury
people felt, whilst the following Hallowe'en produced an underground
rumbling queerly synchronized with bursts of flame - 'them witch
Whateleys' doin's' - from the summit of Sentinel Hill. Wilbur
was growing up uncannily, so that he looked like a boy of ten
as he entered his fourth year. He read avidly by himself now;
but talked much less than formerly. A settled taciturnity was
absorbing him, and for the first time people began to speak specifically
of the dawning look of evil in his goatish face. He would sometimes
mutter an unfamiliar jargon, and chant in bizarre rhythms which
The Dunwich Horror |
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 In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: her head, and the laughter bubbled in her round white throat.
"It's rather a nice picture, don't you think?" he asked. But she was
looking at a curious ring he wore on the hand that covered the girl's body,
and only nodded.
"Ever seen anything like it before?"
"Oh, there's plenty of those funny ones in the illustrated papers."
"How would you like to have your picture taken that way?"
"Me? I'd never let anybody see it. Besides, I haven't got a hat like
that!"
"That's easily remedied."
Again a little silence, broken by Anna throwing up the slide.
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