| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: describes with emphasis, was very sad. The subject, a widely known
architect with leanings toward theosophy and occultism, went violently
insane on the date of young Wilcox's seizure, and expired several
months later after incessant screamings to be saved from some
escaped denizen of hell. Had my uncle referred to these cases
by name instead of merely by number, I should have attempted some
corroboration and personal investigation; but as it was, I succeeded
in tracing down only a few. All of these, however, bore out the
notes in full. I have often wondered if all the the objects of
the professor's questioning felt as puzzled as did this fraction.
It is well that no explanation shall ever reach them.
Call of Cthulhu |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: a more divine being than I had ever beheld or imagined;
his character contained no pretension, but it sank deep.
The disquisitions upon death and suicide were calculated
to fill me with wonder. I did not pretend to enter into
the merits of the case, yet I inclined towards the opinions
of the hero, whose extinction I wept, without precisely
understanding it.
"As I read, however, I applied much personally to my own feelings
and condition. I found myself similar yet at the same time strangely
unlike to the beings concerning whom I read and to whose conversation
I was a listener. I sympathized with and partly understood them,
Frankenstein |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: "That's just what I say," she said, willfullyrefusingto see the
irony of his tone, and quietly turning back her long, perfumed
glove.
"Anna, for God's sake! what is the matter with you?" he said,
appealing to her exactly as once her husband had done.
"I don't understand what you are asking."
"You know that it's out of the question to go."
"Why so? I'm not going alone. Princess Varvara has gone to dress,
she is going with me."
He shrugged his shoulders with an air of perplexity and despair.
"But do you mean to say you don't know? . . ." he began.
Anna Karenina |
