| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: historic, artistic, and anthropologic knowledge; an acquisition
carried on with feverish zest and with a wholly abnormal absorptive
power. Then a sudden return of rightful consciousness, intermittently
plagued ever after with vague unplaceable dreams suggesting fragments
of some hideous memory elaborately blotted out.
And the close
resemblance of those nightmares to my own - even in some of the
smallest particulars - left no doubt in my mind of their significantly
typical nature. One or two of the cases had an added ring of faint,
blasphemous familiarity, as if I had heard of them before through
some cosmic channel too morbid and frightful to contemplate. In
Shadow out of Time |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson: I thought that he was gentle, being great:
O God, that I had loved a smaller man!
I should have found in him a greater heart.
O, I, that flattering my true passion, saw
The knights, the court, the King, dark in your light,
Who loved to make men darker than they are,
Because of that high pleasure which I had
To seat you sole upon my pedestal
Of worship--I am answered, and henceforth
The course of life that seemed so flowery to me
With you for guide and master, only you,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: fragments down to feed the flames below; where the apertures in
the wall (windows no longer) were large enough, they threw out
tables, chests of drawers, beds, mirrors, pictures, and flung them
whole into the fire; while every fresh addition to the blazing
masses was received with shouts, and howls, and yells, which added
new and dismal terrors to the conflagration. Those who had axes
and had spent their fury on the movables, chopped and tore down the
doors and window frames, broke up the flooring, hewed away the
rafters, and buried men who lingered in the upper rooms, in heaps
of ruins. Some searched the drawers, the chests, the boxes,
writing-desks, and closets, for jewels, plate, and money; while
Barnaby Rudge |
