| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: All traces of strange dreaming had vanished with his recovery,
and my uncle kept no record of his night-thoughts after a week
of pointless and irrelevant accounts of thoroughly usual visions.
Here the first part of the manuscript ended, but references
to certain of the scattered notes gave me much material for thought
- so much, in fact, that only the ingrained skepticism then forming
my philosophy can account for my continued distrust of the artist.
The notes in question were those descriptive of the dreams of
various persons covering the same period as that in which young
Wilcox had had his strange visitations. My uncle, it seems, had
quickly instituted a prodigiously far-flung body of inquires amongst
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: superfluities, and England the mistress of the globe. Strange, no
doubt; distant, no doubt: but possible, my dear madam, possible!"
"And what good to you if it be, Mr. Gilbert? If you could find a
philosopher's stone to turn sinners into saints, now--but naught
save God's grace can do that; and that last seems ofttimes over
long in coming." And Mrs. Hawkins sighed.
"But indeed, my dear madam, conceive now.--The Comb Martin mine
thus becomes a gold mine, perhaps inexhaustible; yields me
wherewithal to carry out my North-West patent; meanwhile my brother
Humphrey holds Newfoundland, and builds me fresh ships year by year
(for the forests of pine are boundless) for my China voyage."
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