| 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: old peaked gables shine softly out with the calm yellow light
of homely candles.
"The gods love your marvellous city, and
walk no more in the ways of the gods. They have forgotten the
high places of earth, and the mountains that knew their youth.
The earth has no longer any gods that are gods, and only the Other
Ones from outer space hold sway on unremembered Kadath. Far away
in a valley of your own childhood, Randolph Carter, play the heedless
Great Ones. You have dreamed too well, O wise arch-dreamer, for
you have drawn dream's gods away from the world of all men's visions
to that which is wholly yours; having builded out of your boyhood's
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: concluded was, that they would, if possible, drive the savages up
to the farther part of the island, south-west, that if any more
came on shore they might not find one another; then, that they
would daily hunt and harass them, and kill as many of them as they
could come at, till they had reduced their number; and if they
could at last tame them, and bring them to anything, they would
give them corn, and teach them how to plant, and live upon their
daily labour. In order to do this, they so followed them, and so
terrified them with their guns, that in a few days, if any of them
fired a gun at an Indian, if he did not hit him, yet he would fall
down for fear. So dreadfully frightened were they that they kept
Robinson Crusoe |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Macbeth by William Shakespeare: Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came Missiues from
the King, who all-hail'd me Thane of Cawdor, by which Title
before, these weyward Sisters saluted me, and referr'd me to
the comming on of time, with haile King that shalt be. This
haue I thought good to deliuer thee (my dearest Partner of
Greatnesse) that thou might'st not loose the dues of reioycing
by being ignorant of what Greatnesse is promis'd thee. Lay
it to thy heart and farewell.
Glamys thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be
What thou art promis'd: yet doe I feare thy Nature,
It is too full o'th' Milke of humane kindnesse,
Macbeth |
