| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Second Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln: living God always ascribe to him? Fondly do we hope--fervently
do we pray--that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by
the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil
shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn by the lash
shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said
three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The
judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in
the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on
to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds;
Second Inaugural Address |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moby Dick by Herman Melville: hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the
devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless
tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks.
Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose
creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the
world began.
Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle, and most
docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you
not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this
appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man
there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed
Moby Dick |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: feeling of mnemonic restraint, the curious impressions regarding
time, and sense of a loathsome exchange with my secondary personality
of 1908-13, and, considerably later, the inexplicable loathing
of my own person.
As certain definite details began to enter
the dreams, their horror increased a thousandfold - until by October,
1915, I felt I must do something. It was then that I began an
intensive study of other cases of amnesia and visions, feeling
that I might thereby obectivise my trouble and shake clear of
its emotional grip.
However, as before mentioned, the result
Shadow out of Time |
