| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: irrationally, except that after all holocaust on such a scale was not
probable. They could not all be drowned. And again she felt alone in
the presence of her old antagonist, life.
Jasper and Rose said that Mildred wanted to know whether she should
wait dinner.
"Not for the Queen of England," said Mrs Ramsay emphatically.
"Not for the Empress of Mexico," she added, laughing at Jasper; for he
shared his mother's vice: he, too, exaggerated.
And if Rose liked, she said, while Jasper took the message, she might
choose which jewels she was to wear. When there are fifteen people
sitting down to dinner, one cannot keep things waiting for ever. She
To the Lighthouse |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: hath sent me.
ZEC 2:10 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I
will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD.
ZEC 2:11 And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and
shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou
shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto thee.
ZEC 2:12 And the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land,
and shall choose Jerusalem again.
ZEC 2:13 Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up
out of his holy habitation.
ZEC 3:1 And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: the doctor put him to bed he could only mutter over and over again,
'But what, in God's name, can we do?'
Dr Armitage slept, but
was partly delirious the next day. He made no explanations to
Hartwell, but in his calmer moments spoke of the imperative need
of a long conference with Rice and Morgan. His wilder wanderings
were very startling indeed, including frantic appeals that something
in a boarded-up farmhouse be destroyed, and fantastic references
to some plan for the extirpation of the entire human race and
all animal and vegetable life from the earth by some terrible
elder race of beings from another dimension. He would shout that
The Dunwich Horror |
