| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs:
My only hope seemed to lie in entering the city surreptitiously
under cover of the darkness, and once in, trust to my own wits
to hide myself in some crowded quarter where detection would
be less liable to occur.
With this idea in view I circled the great wall, keeping within
the fringe of the forest, which is cut away for a short distance
from the wall all about the city, that no enemy may utilize the
trees as a means of ingress.
The Warlord of Mars |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: The Wolf and the Feeding Goat
A WOLF saw a Goat feeding at the summit of a rock, where he could
not get at her.
"Why do you stay up there in that sterile place and go hungry?"
said the Wolf. "Down here where I am the broken-bottle vine cometh
up as a flower, the celluloid collar blossoms as the rose, and the
tin-can tree brings forth after its kind."
"That is true, no doubt," said the Goat, "but how about the circus-
poster crop? I hear that it failed this year down there."
The Wolf, perceiving that he was being chaffed, went away and
resumed his duties at the doors of the poor.
Fantastic Fables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: atrophy. There were many sculptures which showed how they had
always frequently visited their submarine kinsfolk elsewhere,
and how they had habitually bathed on the deep bottom of their
great river. The darkness of inner earth could likewise have been
no deterrent to a race accustomed to long antarctic nights.
Decadent
though their style undoubtedly was, these latest carvings had
a truly epic quality where they told of the building of the new
city in the cavern sea. The Old Ones had gone about it scientifically
- quarrying insoluble rocks from the heart of the honeycombed
mountains, and employing expert workers from the nearest submarine
At the Mountains of Madness |
