| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: relievo skeleton on one gable, still blackened with the fire
of thirty years ago. A chill dank mist lay over all. The
Old Greyfriars' churchyard was in perfection that morning,
and one could go round and reckon up the associations with no
fear of vulgar interruption. On this stone the Covenant was
signed. In that vault, as the story goes, John Knox took
hiding in some Reformation broil. From that window Burke the
murderer looked out many a time across the tombs, and perhaps
o' nights let himself down over the sill to rob some new-made
grave. Certainly he would have a selection here. The very
walks have been carried over forgotten resting-places; and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Aeneid by Virgil: A nymph his mother, his sire a god.
Exulting in bright arms, he braves the prince:
With his protended lance he makes defense;
Bears back his feeble foe; then, pressing on,
Arrests his better hand, and drags him down;
Stands o'er the prostrate wretch, and, as he lay,
Vain tales inventing, and prepar'd to pray,
Mows off his head: the trunk a moment stood,
Then sunk, and roll'd along the sand in blood.
The vengeful victor thus upbraids the slain:
"Lie there, proud man, unpitied, on the plain;
Aeneid |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs: together and to the underlying framework of the door with gut or
fiber and also glued, after which a thick coating of paint had
been applied. One edge of the door was formed of a straight,
round pole about two inches in diameter that protruded at top and
bottom, the projections setting in round holes in both lintel and
sill forming the axis upon which the door swung. An eccentric
disk upon the inside face of the door engaged a slot in the frame
when it was desired to secure the door against intruders.
As Bradley stood flattened against the wall waiting for the
Wieroo to move on, he heard the creature's wings brushing against
the sides of the buildings as it made its way down the narrow
Out of Time's Abyss |
