| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: tremor the night before, the most considerable felt in New England
for some years; and Wilcox's imagination had been keenly affected.
Upon retiring, he had had an unprecedented dream of great Cyclopean
cities of Titan blocks and sky-flung monoliths, all dripping with
green ooze and sinister with latent horror. Hieroglyphics had
covered the walls and pillars, and from some undetermined point
below had come a voice that was not a voice; a chaotic sensation
which only fancy could transmute into sound, but which he attempted
to render by the almost unpronounceable jumble of letters: "Cthulhu
fhtagn."
This verbal jumble was the key to the recollection
Call of Cthulhu |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Just Folks by Edgar A. Guest: And the liveliest kittens play,
And little tin soldiers guard the street
To frighten the bears away.
This land is reached by a wonderful ship
That sails on a golden tide;
But never a grown-up makes the trip--
It is only a children's ride.
And never a cross-patch journeys there,
And never a pouting face,
For it is the Land of Smiling, where
A frown is a big disgrace.
Just Folks |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather: Wilson took the cup gratefully. "Ah, no
need to remind a man of seventy, who has
just been home to find that he has survived
all his contemporaries. I was most gently
treated--as a sort of precious relic. But, do
you know, it made me feel awkward to be
hanging about still."
"Seventy? Never mention it to me." Hilda looked
appreciatively at the Professor's alert face,
with so many kindly lines about the mouth
and so many quizzical ones about the eyes.
Alexander's Bridge |
