| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain: no gentleman ever does it -- though I -- well, I myself,
if I've got to confess --"
"Peradventure she --"
"Never mind her; never mind her; I tell you I
couldn't ever explain her so you would understand."
"Even so be it, sith ye are so minded. Then Sir
Gawaine and Sir Uwaine went and saluted them, and
asked them why they did that despite to the shield.
Sirs, said the damsels, we shall tell you. There is a
knight in this country that owneth this white shield, and
he is a passing good man of his hands, but he hateth
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum: Sawhorse, but they took care to soften their seat with a pad of
blankets before they started. Thus mounted, the adventurers started
for the hill, which was reached after a brief journey.
As they mounted the crest and gazed beyond the hill, they discovered
not far away a walled city, from the towers and spires of which gay
banners were flying. It was not a very big city, indeed, but its
walls were very high and thick, and it appeared that the people who
lived there must have feared attack by a powerful enemy, else they
would not have surrounded their dwellings with so strong a barrier.
There was no path leading from the mountains to the city, and this
proved that the people seldom or never visited the whirling hills, but
The Lost Princess of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: by a curious coincidence which we have not yet tried to explain,
even to ourselves. The tops of the buildings, which in the actual
city around us had, of course, been weathered into shapeless ruins
ages ago, were clearly displayed in the bas-reliefs, and showed
vast clusters of needle-like spires, delicate finials on certain
cone and pyramid apexes, and tiers of thin, horizontal scalloped
disks capping cylindrical shafts. This was exactly what we had
seen in that monstrous and portentous mirage, cast by a dead city
whence such skyline features had been absent for thousands and
tens of thousands of years, which loomed on our ignorant eyes
across the unfathomed mountains of madness as we first approached
At the Mountains of Madness |
