| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Georgics by Virgil: Lets in the flood, whose waters follow fain;
And when the parched field quivers, and all the blades
Are dying, from the brow of its hill-bed,
See! see! he lures the runnel; down it falls,
Waking hoarse murmurs o'er the polished stones,
And with its bubblings slakes the thirsty fields?
Or why of him, who lest the heavy ears
O'erweigh the stalk, while yet in tender blade
Feeds down the crop's luxuriance, when its growth
First tops the furrows? Why of him who drains
The marsh-land's gathered ooze through soaking sand,
Georgics |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: The Pickman ghoul allowed several
hours for the night-gaunts to make up their rudimentary minds
and overcome their fear of flying over the sea, and kept the galley
standing about a mile off the jagged rock while he waited, and
dressed the wounds of the injured men. Night fell, and the grey
twilight gave place to the sickly phosphorescence of low clouds,
and all the while the leaders watched the high peaks of that accursed
rock for signs of the night-gaunts' flight. Toward morning a black
speck was seen hovering timidly over the top-most pinnacle, and
shortly afterward the speck had become a swarm. Just before daybreak
the swarm seemed to scatter, and within a quarter of an hour it
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris: eyes fixed and weapon ready, regardless of the movements of his
mates.
"See any rifles among them, Charlie?" shouted Moran, suddenly
breaking the silence.
"No, I tink no hab got," answered Charlie.
Wilbur took another step forward and cocked his revolver. One of
the beach-combers shouted out something in angry vernacular, and
Charlie instantly responded. All this time the line had been
slowly advancing upon the enemy, and Wilbur began to wonder how
long that heartbreaking suspense was to continue. This was not at
all what he had imagined. Already he was within twenty feet of
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