| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Lobo: themselves in houses find great difficulty to avoid the diseases
that proceed from the noxious qualities of these vapours. From the
beginning of June to that of September it rains more or less every
day. The morning is generally fair and bright, but about two hours
after noon the sky is clouded, and immediately succeeds a violent
storm, with thunder and lightning flashing in the most dreadful
manner. While this lasts, which is commonly three or four hours,
none go out of doors. The ploughman upon the first appearance of it
unyokes his oxen, and betakes himself with them into covert.
Travellers provide for their security in the neighbouring villages,
or set up their tents, everybody flies to some shelter, as well to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle: she tied it tightly about Robin's arm, as though she were about
to bleed him. And so she did bleed him, but the vein she opened
was not one of those that lie close and blue beneath the skin;
deeper she cut than that, for she opened one of those veins
through which the bright red blood runs leaping from the heart.
Of this Robin knew not; for, though he saw the blood flow,
it did not come fast enough to make him think that there was
anything ill in it.
Having done this vile deed, the Prioress turned and left her cousin,
locking the door behind her. All that livelong day the blood ran from
Robin Hood's arm, nor could he check it, though he strove in every way
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: cold to where the tall derrick marked a new-found gateway to secrets
of inner earth and vanished aeons.
When Lake had satisfied the
first keen edge of his curiosity, he scribbled a message in his
notebook and had young Moulton run back to the camp to dispatch
it by wireless. This was my first word of the discovery, and it
told of the identification of early shells, bones of ganoids and
placoderms, remnants of labyrinthodonts and thecodonts, great
mosasaur skull fragments, dinosaur vertebrae and armor plates,
pterodactyl teeth and wing bones, Archaeopteryx debris, Miocene
sharks’ teeth, primitive bird skulls, and other bones of archaic
At the Mountains of Madness |
