| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson: The Gardener
The gardener does not love to talk.
He makes me keep the gravel walk;
And when he puts his tools away,
He locks the door and takes the key.
Away behind the currant row,
Where no one else but cook may go,
Far in the plots, I see him dig,
Old and serious, brown and big.
He digs the flowers, green, red, and blue,
Nor wishes to be spoken to.
A Child's Garden of Verses |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde: daffodil. His lips, also, were like the petals of a red flower,
and his eyes were like violets by a river of pure water, and his
body like the narcissus of a field where the mower comes not.
Yet did his beauty work him evil. For he grew proud, and cruel,
and selfish. The children of the Woodcutter, and the other
children of the village, he despised, saying that they were of mean
parentage, while he was noble, being sprang from a Star, and he
made himself master over them, and called them his servants. No
pity had he for the poor, or for those who were blind or maimed or
in any way afflicted, but would cast stones at them and drive them
forth on to the highway, and bid them beg their bread elsewhere, so
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: It was a wholly unconscious and irrational flight, and only when
I was close to my tent did I fully realise why I had run. Then
it came to me. The queer dark stone was something which I had
dreamed and read about, and which was linked with the uttermost
horrors of the aeon-old legendry.
It was one of the blocks of
that basaltic elder masonry which the fabled Great Race held in
such fear - the tall, windowless ruins left by those brooding,
half-material, alien things that festered in earth's nether abysses
and against whose wind-like, invisible forces the trap-doors were
sealed and the sleepless sentinels posted.
Shadow out of Time |
