| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: there were curious incrustations which I could not explain.
In
places the masonry was very loose and distorted, and I wondered
how many aeons more this primal, hidden edifice could keep its
remaining traces of form amidst earth's heavings.
But it was
the carvings themselves that excited me most. Despite their time-crumbled
state, they were relatively easy to trace at close range; and
the complete, intimate familiarity of every detail almost stunned
my imagination.
That the major attributes of this hoary masonry
Shadow out of Time |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson: Everywhere he turns,
Men to dust are drying, --
Dust that wanders, eying
(With eyes that hardly glow)
New faces, dimly spying
For friends that come and go.
ENVOY
And thus we all are nighing
The truth we fear to know:
Death will end our crying
For friends that come and go.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum: run to pick them up, with wonderful quickness; but the one whose head
Toto had stolen found it hard to get it back again. The head couldn't
see the body with either pair of its eyes, because the dog was in the
way, so the headless Scoodler stumbled around over the rocks and
tripped on them more than once in its effort to regain its top. Toto
was trying to get outside the rocks and roll the head down the hill;
but some of the other Scoodlers came to the rescue of their
unfortunate comrade and pelted the dog with their own heads until he
was obliged to drop his burden and hurry back to Dorothy.
The little girl and the Rainbow's Daughter had both escaped the shower
of heads, but they saw now that it would be useless to try to run away
The Road to Oz |
