| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: "At bottom of torso, rough but dissimilarly functioning counterparts
of head arrangements exist. Bulbous light-gray pseudo-neck, without
gill suggestions, holds greenish five-pointed starfish arrangement.
"Tough, muscular arms four feet long and tapering from seven
inches diameter at base to about two and five-tenths at point.
To each point is attached small end of a greenish five-veined
membranous triangle eight inches long and six wide at farther
end. This is the paddle, fin, or pseudofoot which has made prints
in rocks from a thousand million to fifty or sixty million years
old.
"From inner angles of starfish arrangement project two-foot
At the Mountains of Madness |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: already thirteen courts of justice in the United States which
decided causes without appeal. That number is now increased to
twenty-four. To suppose that a State can subsist when its
fundamental laws may be subjected to four-and-twenty different
interpretations at the same time is to advance a proposition
alike contrary to reason and to experience.
The American legislators therefore agreed to create a
federal judiciary power to apply the laws of the Union, and to
determine certain questions affecting general interests, which
were carefully determined beforehand. The entire judicial power
of the Union was centred in one tribunal, which was denominated
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Nada the Lily by H. Rider Haggard: strongest and bravest of children, so the girl Nada was the gentlest
and most fair. Of a truth, my father, I believe that her blood was not
all Zulu, though this I cannot say for certain. At the least, her eyes
were softer and larger than those of our people, her hair longer and
less tightly curled, and her skin was lighter--more of the colour of
pure copper. These things she had from her mother, Macropha; though
she was fairer than Macropha--fairer, indeed, than any woman of my
people whom I have seen. Her mother, Macropha, my wife, was of Swazi
blood, and was brought to the king's kraal with other captives after a
raid, and given to me as a wife by the king. It was said that she was
the daughter of a Swazi headman of the tribe of the Halakazi, and that
Nada the Lily |
