| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: toward the boys romping near him and he leaned carelessly against a white oak
tree. But a close observer would have seen, as Alfred did, that there was a
certain alertness in that rigid and motionless figure. Wetzel's eyes were
fixed on the western end of the island. Almost involuntarily Alfred's eyes
sought the same direction. The western end of the island ran out into a long
low point covered with briars, rushes and saw-grass. As Alfred directed his
gaze along the water line of this point he distinctly saw a dark form flit
from one bush to another. He was positive he had not been mistaken. He got up
slowly and unconcernedly, and strolled over to Wetzel.
"Wetzel, I saw an object just now," he said in a low tone. "It was moving
behind those bushes at the head of the island. I am not sure whether it was an
Betty Zane |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: many; and not being a part of any one, it cannot be a part or anything else
of all those things of none of which it is anything.
Clearly not.
Then the part is not a part of the many, nor of all, but is of a certain
single form, which we call a whole, being one perfect unity framed out of
all--of this the part will be a part.
Certainly.
If, then, the others have parts, they will participate in the whole and in
the one.
True.
Then the others than the one must be one perfect whole, having parts.
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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: Even
as he realised this thing, Carter noticed a change in the course
of the helplessly wind-sucked party. They were rising abruptly
now, and it was plain that the focus of their flight was the onyx
castle where the pale light shone. So close was the great black
mountain that its sides sped by them dizzily as they shot upward,
and in the darkness they could discern nothing upon it. Vaster
and vaster loomed the tenebrous towers of the nighted castle above,
and Carter could see that it was well-nigh blasphemous in its
immensity. Well might its stones have been quarried by nameless
workmen in that horrible gulf rent out of the rock in the hill
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
