| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard: us how he came to visit Central Africa, which he did in a most
extraordinary lingo, that for the most part I shall not attempt
to reproduce.
'My grandfather,' he began, 'was a soldier of the Guard, and
served under Napoleon. He was in the retreat from Moscow, and
lived for ten days on his own leggings and a pair he stole from
a comrade. He used to get drunk -- he died drunk, and I remember
playing at drums on his coffin. My father --'
Here we suggested that he might skip his ancestry and come to
the point.
'Bien, messieurs!' replied this comical little man, with a polite
Allan Quatermain |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: horned and hooved almost-humans, and the night-gaunts were all
out of sight below. By this time the leaders had fully formed
a plan; which was to loose the night-gaunts as soon as the wharf
was touched, and then to sail directly away, leaving matters wholly
to the instincts of those almost-mindless creatures. Marooned
on the rock, the horned flyers would first of all seize whatever
living things they found there, and afterward, quite helpless
to think except in terms of the homing instinct, would forget
their fears of water and fly swiftly back to the abyss; bearing
their noisome prey to appropriate destinations in the dark, from
which not much would emerge alive.
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Three Taverns by Edwin Arlington Robinson: You might not -- or that Quaker with his cane.
BURR
Possibly, too, I should. When the Almighty
Rides a white horse, I fancy we shall know it.
HAMILTON
It was a man, Burr, that was in my mind;
No god, or ghost, or demon -- only a man:
A man whose occupation is the need
Of those who would not feel it if it bit them;
And one who shapes an age while he endures
The pin pricks of inferiorities;
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