| 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: noises reached clear to Arkham - what walked on the mountains
that May night? What Roodmas horror fastened itself on the world
in half-human flesh and blood?'
During the ensuing weeks Dr
Armitage set about to collect all possible data on Wilbur Whateley
and the formless presences around Dunwich. He got in communication
with Dr Houghton of Aylesbury, who had attended Old Whateley in
his last illness, and found much to ponder over in the grandfather's
last words as quoted by the physician. A visit to Dunwich Village
failed to bring out much that was new; but a close survey of the
Necronomicon, in those parts which Wilbur had sought so avidly,
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 Anabasis by Xenophon: and property in Scillus, where he lived for many
years before having to move once more, to settle
in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C.
The Anabasis is his story of the march to Persia
to aid Cyrus, who enlisted Greek help to try and
take the throne from Artaxerxes, and the ensuing
return of the Greeks, in which Xenophon played a
leading role. This occurred between 401 B.C. and
March 399 B.C.
PREPARER'S NOTE
This was typed from Dakyns' series, "The Works of Xenophon," a
Anabasis |
