| 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: gulfs, or to return through a churchyard to the waking world and
begin the quest anew down the seventy steps of light slumber to
the cavern of flame and the seven hundred steps to the Gate of
Deeper Slumber and the enchanted wood. This, however, did not
suit the seeker; for he knew nothing of the way from Leng to Ooth-Nargai,
and was likewise reluctant to awake lest he forget all he had
so far gained in this dream. It was disastrous to his quest to
forget the august and celestial faces of those seamen from the
north who traded onyx in Celephais, and who, being the sons of
gods, must point the way to the cold waste and Kadath where the
Great Ones dwell.
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Othello by William Shakespeare: Bra. Call vp my Brother: oh would you had had her.
Some one way, some another. Doe you know
Where we may apprehend her, and the Moore?
Rod. I thinke I can discouer him, if you please
To get good Guard, and go along with me
Bra. Pray you lead on. At euery house Ile call,
(I may command at most) get Weapons (hoa)
And raise some speciall Officers of might:
On good Rodorigo, I will deserue your paines.
Exeunt.
Scena Secunda.
Othello |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce: afterward known as Soapy Sam. For every man there is something in the
vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies
have only to find it.
OLYMPIAN, adj. Relating to a mountain in Thessaly, once inhabited by
gods, now a repository of yellowing newspapers, beer bottles and
mutilated sardine cans, attesting the presence of the tourist and his
appetite.
His name the smirking tourist scrawls
Upon Minerva's temple walls,
Where thundered once Olympian Zeus,
And marks his appetite's abuse.
The Devil's Dictionary |
