| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: at the stream’s entrance had been boldly carved into Cyclopean
pylons; and something about the ridgy, barrel-shaped designs stirred
up oddly vague, hateful, and confusing semi-remembrances in both
Danforth and me.
We also came upon several star-shaped open
spaces, evidently public squares, and noted various undulations
in the terrain. Where a sharp hill rose, it was generally hollowed
out into some sort of rambling-stone edifice; but there were at
least two exceptions. Of these latter, one was too badly weathered
to disclose what had been on the jutting eminence, while the other
still bore a fantastic conical monument carved out of the solid
At the Mountains of Madness |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll: Here the speaker sat down in his place,
And directed the Judge to refer to his notes
And briefly to sum up the case.
But the Judge said he never had summed up before;
So the Snark undertook it instead,
And summed it so well that it came to far more
Than the Witnesses ever had said!
When the verdict was called for, the Jury declined,
As the word was so puzzling to spell;
But they ventured to hope that the Snark wouldn't mind
Undertaking that duty as well.
The Hunting of the Snark |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts
be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary
for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate
and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation
till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended,
he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of
large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish
the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right
United States Declaration of Independence |
