| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske: with the myth of Indra slaying Vritra; we may see in the
invincible Sigurd the prototype of many a doughty
knight-errant of romance; and we may learn anew the lesson,
taught with fresh emphasis by modern scholarship, that in the
deepest sense there is nothing new under the sun.
I am the more explicit on this point, because it seems to me
that the unguarded language of many students of mythology is
liable to give rise to misapprehensions, and to discredit both
the method which they employ and the results which they have
obtained. If we were to give full weight to the statements
which are sometimes made, we should perforce believe that
Myths and Myth-Makers |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson: "And what for no?" said he.
"I am seeking somebody," said I; "and it comes in my mind that
you will have news of him. Alan Breck Stewart is his name." And
very foolishly, instead of showing him the button, I sought to
pass a shilling in his hand.
At this he drew back. "I am very much affronted," he said; "and
this is not the way that one shentleman should behave to another
at all. The man you ask for is in France; but if he was in my
sporran," says he, "and your belly full of shillings, I would not
hurt a hair upon his body."
I saw I had gone the wrong way to work, and without wasting time
Kidnapped |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: many, and in various stages of departure from their primal state.
Carter put out of the way certain things which were after a fashion
alive, and fled precipitately from a few other things about which
he could not be very positive. The stench-filled houses were furnished
mostly with grotesque stools and benches carven from moon-trees,
and were painted inside with nameless and frantic designs. Countless
weapons, implements, and ornaments lay about, including some large
idols of solid ruby depicting singular beings not found on the
earth. These latter did not, despite their material, invite either
appropriation or long inspection; and Carter took the trouble
to hammer five of them into very small pieces. The scattered spears
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
