| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: The next day, saying that he wished to look
over all the various mines for himself and to visit the scattered
farms and quaint onyx villages of Inquanok, Carter hired a yak
and stuffed great leathern saddle-bags for a journey. Beyond the
Gate of the Caravans the road lay straight betwixt tilled fields,
with many odd farmhouses crowned by low domes. At some of these
houses the seeker stopped to ask questions; once finding a host
so austere and reticent, and so full of an unplaced majesty like
to that in the huge features on Ngranek, that he felt certain
he had come at last upon one of the Great Ones themselves, or
upon one with full nine-tenths of their blood, dwelling amongst
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles: All we thy votaries beseech thee, find
Some succor, whether by a voice from heaven
Whispered, or haply known by human wit.
Tried counselors, methinks, are aptest found [1]
To furnish for the future pregnant rede.
Upraise, O chief of men, upraise our State!
Look to thy laurels! for thy zeal of yore
Our country's savior thou art justly hailed:
O never may we thus record thy reign:--
"He raised us up only to cast us down."
Uplift us, build our city on a rock.
Oedipus Trilogy |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: blood of the Normans and Anglo-Saxons, or to
unite, by common language and mutual interests,
two hostile races, one of which still felt the elation
of triumph, while the other groaned under all the
consequences of defeat. The power bad been completely
placed in the hands of the Norman nobility,
by the event of the battle of Hastings, and it had
been used, as our histories assure us, with no moderate
hand. The whole race of Saxon princes and
nobles had been extirpated or disinherited, with
few or no exceptions; nor were the numbers great
Ivanhoe |
