| 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 river are great wharves of marble, with ornate galleons of
fragrant cedar and calamander riding gently at anchor, and strange
bearded sailors sitting on casks and bales with the hieroglyphs
of far places. Landward beyond the walls lies the farm country,
where small white cottages dream between little hills, and narrow
roads with many stone bridges wind gracefully among streams and
gardens.
Down through this verdant land Carter walked at evening,
and saw twilight float up from the river to the marvellous golden
spires of Thran. And just at the hour of dusk he came to the southern
gate, and was stopped by a red-robed sentry till he had told three
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain: in the newspaper line; nothing big, but just a small
weekly for experimental circulation in my civilization-
nurseries. He took to it like a duck; there was an
editor concealed in him, sure. Already he had doubled
himself in one way; he talked sixth century and wrote
nineteenth. His journalistic style was climbing, stead-
ily; it was already up to the back settlement Alabama
mark, and couldn't be told from the editorial output of
that region either by matter or flavor.
We had another large departure on hand, too. This
was a telegraph and a telephone; our first venture in
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Love Songs by Sara Teasdale: That it may be a cloud by day,
And in the night a shaft of fire.
A Prayer
Until I lose my soul and lie
Blind to the beauty of the earth,
Deaf though shouting wind goes by,
Dumb in a storm of mirth;
Until my heart is quenched at length
And I have left the land of men,
Oh, let me love with all my strength
Careless if I am loved again.
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