The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget
it.
DEU 26:1 And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the
LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and
dwellest therein;
DEU 26:2 That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the
earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth
thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which
the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there.
DEU 26:3 And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days,
and say unto him, I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: realized how deep had been his attachment for his mother,
for as such he looked upon her.
In Teeka he had seen within the past few hours a
substitute for Kala--someone to fight for and to hunt
for--someone to caress; but now his dream was shattered.
Something hurt within his breast. He placed his hand
over his heart and wondered what had happened to him.
Vaguely he attributed his pain to Teeka. The more he
thought of Teeka as he had last seen her, caressing Taug,
the more the thing within his breast hurt him.
Tarzan shook his head and growled; then on and on
The Jungle Tales of Tarzan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: with the queer image found in the shrine on the Alert, is poignantly
visible in every line of the mates frightened description.
Without
knowing what futurism is like, Johansen achieved something very
close to it when he spoke of the city; for instead of describing
any definite structure or building, he dwells only on broad impressions
of vast angles and stone surfaces - surfaces too great to belong
to anything right or proper for this earth, and impious with horrible
images and hieroglyphs. I mention his talk about angles because
it suggests something Wilcox had told me of his awful dreams.
He said that the geometry of the dream-place he saw was abnormal,
Call of Cthulhu |