| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: Crete exalted the sacred bull, those of Egypt the scarabaeus,
those of Rome the wolf and the eagle, and those of various savage
tribes some chosen totem animal. But this lone refuge was now
stripped from us, and we were forced to face definitely the reason-shaking
realization which the reader of these pages has doubtless long
ago anticipated. I can scarcely bear to write it down in black
and white even now, but perhaps that will not be necessary.
The
things once rearing and dwelling in this frightful masonry in
the age of dinosaurs were not indeed dinosaurs, but far worse.
Mere dinosaurs were new and almost brainless objects - but the
At the Mountains of Madness |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Psalms 49: 12 (49:13) But man abideth not in honour; he is like the beasts that perish.
Psalms 49: 13 (49:14) This is the way of them that are foolish, and of those who after them approve their sayings. Selah
Psalms 49: 14 (49:15) Like sheep they are appointed for the nether-world; death shall be their shepherd; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their form shall be for the nether-world to wear away, that there be no habitation for it.
Psalms 49: 15 (49:16) But God will redeem my soul from the power of the nether-world; for He shall receive me. Selah
Psalms 49: 16 (49:17) Be not thou afraid when one waxeth rich, when the wealth of his house is increased;
Psalms 49: 17 (49:18) For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away; his wealth shall not descend after him.
Psalms 49: 18 (49:19) Though while he lived he blessed his soul: 'Men will praise thee, when thou shalt do well to thyself';
Psalms 49: 19 (49:20) It shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see the light.
Psalms 49: 20 (49:21) Man that is in honour understandeth not; he is like the beasts that perish.
Psalms 50: 1 A Psalm of Asaph. God, God, the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Virginibus Puerisque by Robert Louis Stevenson: have the world along with you. But love is at least a
somewhat hyperbolical expression for such luke-warm
preference. It is not here, anyway, that Love employs his
golden shafts; he cannot be said, with any fitness of
language, to reign here and revel. Indeed, if this be love at
all, it is plain the poets have been fooling with mankind
since the foundation of the world. And you have only to look
these happy couples in the face, to see they have never been
in love, or in hate, or in any other high passion, all their
days. When you see a dish of fruit at dessert, you sometimes
set your affections upon one particular peach or nectarine,
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