| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: else. The old ledger was at length given wholly into the charge
of Dr Armitage, both because of his peculiar interest in the Whateley
matter, and because of his wide linguistic learning and skill
in the mystical formulae of antiquity and the middle ages.
Armitage
had an idea that the alphabet might be something esoterically
used by certain forbidden cults which have come down from old
times, and which have inherited many forms and traditions from
the wizards of the Saracenic world. That question, however, he
did not deem vital; since it would be unnecessary to know the
origin of the symbols if, as he suspected, they were used as a
The Dunwich Horror |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Love Songs by Sara Teasdale: And I must give them to you, all of them,
Before they fade. The people I have met,
The play I saw, the trivial, shifting things
That loom too big or shrink too little, shadows
That hurry, gesturing along a wall,
Haunting or gay -- and yet they all grow real
And take their proper size here in my heart
When you have seen them. . . . There's the Plaza now,
A lake of light! To-night it almost seems
That all the lights are gathered in your eyes,
Drawn somehow toward you. See the open park
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson:
Treasure Island |
