| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: the wonder and melody of ethereal dream; exotic vistas of unimagined
loveliness floating from each strange chord and subtly alien cadence.
Odours of incense came to match the golden notes; and overhead
a great light dawned, its colours changing in cycles unknown to
earth's spectrum, and following the song of the trumpets in weird
symphonic harmonies. Torches flared in the distance, and the beat
of drums throbbed nearer amidst waves of tense expectancy.
Out
of the thinning mists and the cloud of strange incenses filed
twin columns of giant black slaves with loin-cloths of iridescent
silk. Upon their heads were strapped vast helmet-like torches
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect
their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments
long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;
and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed
to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing
the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and
usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce
them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw
off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now
the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
United States Declaration of Independence |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Astoria by Washington Irving: Cheyenne or Shienne nation; a broken tribe, cut up, like the
Arickaras, by wars with the Sioux, and driven to take refuge
among the Black Hills, near the sources of the Cheyenne River,
from which they derive their name. One of these deputies was
magnificently arrayed in a buffalo robe, on which various figures
were fancifully embroidered with split quills dyed red and
yellow; and the whole was fringed with the slender hoofs of young
fawns, that rattled as he walked.
The arrival of this deputation was the signal for another of
those ceremonials which occupy so much of Indian life; for no
being is more courtly and punctilious, and more observing of
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