| 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: guard and battle steeds of the ghouls, and that the army was issuing
forth to Sarkomand to deal with the moonbeasts. Then Carter and
the ghoulish chiefs approached the waiting bearers and were taken
up by the damp, slippery paws. Another moment and all were whirling
in wind and darkness; endlessly up, up, up to the gate of the
winged and the special ruins of primal Sarkomand.
When, after
a great interval, Carter saw again the sickly light of Sarkomand's
nocturnal sky, it was to behold the great central plaza swarming
with militant ghouls and night-gaunts. Day, he felt sure, must
be almost due; but so strong was the army that no surprise of
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy: he approached Father Sergius, and suddenly falling on his knees
loudly exclaimed:
'Holy Father! Bless my afflicted offspring that she may be
healed of her malady. I venture to prostrate myself at your holy
feet.'
And he placed one hand on the other, cup-wise. He said and did
all this as if he were doing something clearly and firmly
appointed by law and usage--as if one must and should ask for a
daughter to be cured in just this way and no other. He did it
with such conviction that it seemed even to Father Sergius that
it should be said and done in just that way, but nevertheless he
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: He put his arm round her and lifted her; but though she came,
she preferred to walk without his support.
"I don't dislike you, Jude," she said in a sweet and imploring voice.
"I love you as much as ever! Only--I ought not to love you--any more.
Oh I must not any more!"
"I can't own it."
"But I have made up my mind that I am not your wife!
I belong to him--I sacramentally joined myself to him for life.
Nothing can alter it!"
"But surely we are man and wife, if ever two people were in this world?
Nature's own marriage it is, unquestionably!"
Jude the Obscure |
