| 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: thought he heard something among the bones underfoot. Once he
bumped into a stony slope, and knew it must be the base of one
of Throk's peaks. Then at last he heard a monstrous rattling and
clatter which reached far up in the air, and became sure he had
come nigh the crag of the ghouls. He was not sure he could be
heard from this valley miles below, but realised that the inner
world has strange laws. As he pondered he was struck by a flying
bone so heavy that it must have been a skull, and therefore realising
his nearness to the fateful crag he sent up as best he might that
meeping cry which is the call of the ghoul.
Sound travels slowly,
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: 'Not so; verily, with me is my Lord, He will guide me.'
And we inspired Moses, 'Strike with thy rod the sea;' and it was
cleft asunder, and each part was like a mighty mountain. And then we
brought the others. And we saved Moses and those with him all
together; then we drowned the others; and that is a sign: but most
of them will never be believers! And, verily, thy Lord He is mighty,
merciful.
And recite to them the story of Abraham; when he said to his
father and his people, 'What do ye serve?' They said, 'We serve idols,
and we are still devoted to them.' He said, 'Can they hear you when ye
call, or profit you, or harm?'
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lin McLean by Owen Wister: In the morning I left Riverside for Buffalo, and there or thereabouts I
remained for a number of weeks. Miss Peck did not enter my thoughts, nor
did I meet any one to remind me of her, until one day I stopped at the
drug-store. It was not for drugs, but gossip, that I went. In the daytime
there was no place like the apothecary's for meeting men and hearing the
news. There I heard how things were going everywhere, including Bear
Creek.
All the cow-punchers liked the new girl up there, said gossip. She was a
great addition to society. Reported to be more companionable than the
school-marm, Miss Molly Wood, who had been raised too far east, and
showed it. Vermont, or some such dude place. Several had been in town
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