| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe: Gothic archway of the hall. A valet, of stealthy step, thence
conducted me, in silence, through many dark and intricate
passages in my progress to the studio of his master. Much
that I encountered on the way contributed, I know not how, to
heighten the vague sentiments of which I have already spoken.
While the objects around me--while the carvings of the ceilings,
the sombre tapestries of the walls, the ebon blackness of the
floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as
I strode, were but matters to which, or to such as which, I had
been accustomed from my infancy--while I hesitated not to
acknowledge how familiar was all this--I still wondered to find
The Fall of the House of Usher |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: not suggest it, for penguins’ beaks against the tough tissues
Lake had dissected could hardly account for the terrible damage
our approaching glance was beginning to make out. Besides, the
huge blind birds we had seen appeared to be singularly peaceful.
Had there, then, been a struggle among those others, and were
the absent four responsible? If so, where were they? Were they
close at hand and likely to form an immediate menace to us? We
glanced anxiously at some of the smooth-floored lateral passages
as we continued our slow and frankly reluctant approach. Whatever
the conflict was, it had clearly been that which had frightened
the penguins into their unaccustomed wandering. It must, then,
At the Mountains of Madness |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: Down sink the unintelligent.
22 For Indra girt by Maruts, flow, thou Indu, very rich in
sweets,
To sit in place of sacrifice.
23 Controlling priests and sages skilled in holy song adorn
thee well:
The living make thee beautiful.
24 Aryaman, Mitra, Varuna drink Pavamana's juice, yea, thine:
O Sage, the Maruts drink thereof.
25 O Soma, Indu, thou while thou art purified urgest onward
speech.
The Rig Veda |
