| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas: your father and of that detestable Master Jacob, -- well,
Rosa, don't hesitate for one moment to sacrifice me, who am
only still living through you, -- me, who have no one in the
world but you; sacrifice me, -- don't come to see me any
more."
Rosa felt her heart sink within her, and her eyes were
filling with tears.
"Alas!" she said.
"What is it?" asked Cornelius.
"I see one thing."
"What do you see?"
The Black Tulip |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: origin.
This primal vault was round and fully two hundred feet
across, with nothing carved upon the dark-hued stonework. The
floor was here free from anything save dust and sand, and I could
see the apertures leading upward and downward. There were no stairs
or inclines - indeed, my dreams had pictured those elder towers
as wholly untouched by the fabulous Great Race. Those who had
built them had not needed stairs or inclines.
In the dreams,
the downward aperture had been tightly sealed and nervously guarded.
Now it lay open-black and yawning, and giving forth a current
Shadow out of Time |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?
'I never know what you are thinking. Think.'
I think we are in rats' alley
Where the dead men lost their bones.
'What is that noise?'
The wind under the door.
'What is that noise now? What is the wind doing?'
Nothing again nothing. 120
'Do
'You know nothing? Do you see nothing? Do you remember
'Nothing?'
The Waste Land |
