| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Charmides and Other Poems by Oscar Wilde: The feet of brass, the robe more white than flame,
The wounded hands, the weary human face.
AT VERONA
How steep the stairs within King's houses are
For exile-wearied feet as mine to tread,
And O how salt and bitter is the bread
Which falls from this Hound's table, - better far
That I had died in the red ways of war,
Or that the gate of Florence bare my head,
Than to live thus, by all things comraded
Which seek the essence of my soul to mar.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: "God will take care of world and Bible better than any cruelty of
ours, dear Sir Richard."
"Nay, but, Mrs. Leigh, we must help Him to take care of them! If
those Smerwick Spaniards had not been--"
"The Spaniard would not have been exasperated into invading us."
"And we should not have had this chance of crushing him once and
for all; but the quarrel is of older standing, madam, eh, Amyas?
Amyas, has Raleigh written to you of late?"
"Not a word, and I wonder why."
"Well; no wonder at that, if you knew how he has been laboring.
The wonder is, whence he got the knowledge wherewith to labor; for
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: little wind that the ship could not move much, and the ocean was
very calm. Looking over the rail Carter saw many fathoms deep
the dome of the great temple, and in front of it an avenue of
unnatural sphinxes leading to what was once a public square. Dolphins
sported merrily in and out of the ruins, and porpoises revelled
clumsily here and there, sometimes coming to the surface and leaping
clear out of the sea. As the ship drifted on a little the floor
of the ocean rose in hills, and one could clearly mark the lines
of ancient climbing streets and the washed-down walls of myriad
little houses.
Then the suburbs appeared, and finally a great
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
