| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll: Everybody that hears me sing it--either it brings the TEARS
into their eyes, or else--'
`Or else what?' said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden
pause.
`Or else it doesn't, you know. The name of the song is called
"HADDOCKS' EYES."'
`Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?' Alice said, trying to
feel interested.
`No, you don't understand,' the Knight said, looking a little
vexed. `That's what the name is CALLED. The name really IS "THE
AGED AGED MAN."'
Through the Looking-Glass |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: 1928
Published April 1929 in Weird Tales, Vol. 13, No. 4, 481-508.
Gorgons and Hydras, and Chimaeras - dire stories of Celaeno
and the Harpies - may reproduce themselves in the brain of superstition
- but they were there before. They are transcripts, types - the
archtypes are in us, and eternal. How else should the recital
of that which we know in a waking sense to be false come to affect
us all? Is it that we naturally conceive terror from such objects,
considered in their capacity of being able to inflict upon us
bodily injury? O, least of all! These terrors are of older standing.
They date beyond body - or without the body, they would have been
The Dunwich Horror |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: Still, still will satyr, nymph, and faun
Through brake and covert pipe and call
In dances bold and bacchanal--
For them, for me, you hold in pawn,
My lands--not thine!
TO A DANCING DOLL
FORMAL, quaint, precise, and trim,
You begin your steps demurely--
There's a spirit almost prim
In the feet that move so surely,
So discreetly, to the chime
|
