| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Divine Comedy (translated by H.F. Cary) by Dante Alighieri: So high toward the heav'n, nor fears the rage
0f elements contending, from that part
Exempted, where the gate his limit bars.
Because the circumambient air throughout
With its first impulse circles still, unless
Aught interpose to cheek or thwart its course;
Upon the summit, which on every side
To visitation of th' impassive air
Is open, doth that motion strike, and makes
Beneath its sway th' umbrageous wood resound:
And in the shaken plant such power resides,
The Divine Comedy (translated by H.F. Cary) |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: everywhere of unequal density. In some places he could swim, in
others he could barely save himself from drowning, in others again he
could not force himself beneath the surface at all. There were no
outward signs to show what the water ahead held in store for him.
The whole business was most dangerous.
He came out, feeling clean and invigorated. For a time he walked up
and down the sands, drying himself in the hot sunshine and looking
around him. He was a naked stranger in a huge, foreign, mystical
world, and whichever way he turned, unknown and threatening forces
were glaring at him. The gigantic, white, withering Branchspell, the
awful, body-changing Alppain, the beautiful, deadly, treacherous sea,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: party of eight plunged farther and farther into the
bewildering labyrinth.
For hours the tiresome march was continued, until at
last the guides halted, apparently to consult each
other as to the proper direction. By signs they made
known to Bulan that they did not agree upon the right
course to pursue from there on, and that they had
decided that it would be best for each to advance a
little way in the direction he thought the right one
while Bulan and his five creatures remained where they were.
"We will go but a little way," said the spokesman,
The Monster Men |
