| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: Mt. Terror, ten thousand, nine hundred feet in altitude, and now
extinct as a volcano.
Puffs of smoke from Erebus came intermittently,
and one of the graduate assistants - a brilliant young fellow
named Danforth - pointed out what looked like lava on the snowy
slope, remarking that this mountain, discovered in 1840, had undoubtedly
been the source of Poe’s image when he wrote seven years later:
- the lavas that restlessly roll
Their sulphurous currents
down Yaanek
In the ultimate climes of the pole -
At the Mountains of Madness |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: though to see who it was that followed her. There she stood in the
evening light, a bough of hawthorn bloom in her hand, and my heart
beat yet more wildly at the sight of her. Never had she seemed
fairer than as she stood thus in her white robe, a look of amaze
upon her face and in her grey eyes, that was half real half
feigned, and with the sunlight shifting on her auburn hair that
showed beneath her little bonnet. Lily was no round-checked
country maid with few beauties save those of health and youth, but
a tall and shapely lady who had ripened early to her full grace and
sweetness, and so it came about that though we were almost of an
age, yet in her presence I felt always as though I were the
Montezuma's Daughter |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: "No," said her aunt; "not uninteresting, but ungracious. But I
like an ungracious man better than one like Philip, who hangs
over young girls like a soft-hearted avalanche. This Lambert
will govern Emilia, which is what she needs."
"She will never love him," said Kate, "which is the one thing
she needs. There is nothing that could not be done with Emilia
by any person with whom she was in love; and nothing can ever
be done with her by anybody else. No good will ever come of
this, and I hope she will never marry him."
With this unusual burst, Kate retreated to Hope. Hope took the
news more patiently than any one, but with deep solicitude. A
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