| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: lover, pursuing his heart's desire. And Cluros, the cold husband,
continued his serene way, as placid as before his house had been
violated by this hot Lothario. And now the Sun and both Moons
rode together in the sky, lending their far mysteries to make
weird the Martian dawn. Tara of Helium looked out across the fair
valley that spread upon all sides of her. It was rich and
beautiful, but even as she looked upon it she shuddered, for to
her mind came a picture of the headless things that the towers
and the walls hid. Those by day and the banths by night! Ah, was
it any wonder that she shuddered?
With the coming of the Sun the great Barsoomian lion rose to his
The Chessmen of Mars |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Youth by Joseph Conrad: oar in my hand, the vision of a scorching blue sea in my
eyes. And I see a bay, a wide bay, smooth as glass and
polished like ice, shimmering in the dark. A red light
burns far off upon the gloom of the land, and the night
is soft and warm. We drag at the oars with aching arms,
and suddenly a puff of wind, a puff faint and tepid and
laden with strange odors of blossoms, of aromatic wood,
comes out of the still night--the first sigh of the East on
my face. That I can never forget. It was impalpable
and enslaving, like a charm, like a whispered promise of
mysterious delight.
Youth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: though he was by fabulous and hippocephalic winged nightmares
that pressed around in great unholy circles, Randolph Carter did
not lose consciousness. Lofty and horrible those titan gargoyles
towered above him, while the slant-eyed merchant leaped down from
his yak and stood grinning before the captive. Then the man motioned
Carter to mount one of the repugnant Shantaks, helping him up
as his judgement struggled with his loathing. It was hard work
ascending, for the Shantak-bird has scales instead of feathers,
and those scales are very slippery. Once he was seated, the slant-eyed
man hopped up behind him, leaving the lean yak to be led away
northward toward the ring of carven mountains by one of the incredible
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
