| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: Decadent
though their style undoubtedly was, these latest carvings had
a truly epic quality where they told of the building of the new
city in the cavern sea. The Old Ones had gone about it scientifically
- quarrying insoluble rocks from the heart of the honeycombed
mountains, and employing expert workers from the nearest submarine
city to perform the construction according to the best methods.
These workers brought with them all that was necessary to establish
the new venture - Shoggoth tissue from which to breed stone lifters
and subsequent beasts of burden for the cavern city, and other
protoplasmic matter to mold into phosphorescent organisms for
At the Mountains of Madness |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Phaedrus by Plato: they can to confirm such a nature in him, and if they have no experience of
such a disposition hitherto, they learn of any one who can teach them, and
themselves follow in the same way. And they have the less difficulty in
finding the nature of their own god in themselves, because they have been
compelled to gaze intensely on him; their recollection clings to him, and
they become possessed of him, and receive from him their character and
disposition, so far as man can participate in God. The qualities of their
god they attribute to the beloved, wherefore they love him all the more,
and if, like the Bacchic Nymphs, they draw inspiration from Zeus, they pour
out their own fountain upon him, wanting to make him as like as possible to
their own god. But those who are the followers of Here seek a royal love,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: they produced from their pockets certain little packages, and
with the utmost ease and accuracy tossed them into our hands.
Jeff was most appreciative of this; and Terry made extravagant
gestures of admiration, which seemed to set them off, boy-
fashion, to show their skill. While we ate the excellent biscuits
they had thrown us, and while Ellador kept a watchful eye on
our movements, Celis ran off to some distance, and set up a sort
of "duck-on-a-rock" arrangement, a big yellow nut on top of
three balanced sticks; Alima, meanwhile, gathering stones.
They urged us to throw at it, and we did, but the thing was
a long way off, and it was only after a number of failures, at
Herland |
