| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte: '"Now - Catherine," he said, "how do you feel?"
'She was dumb.
'"How do you feel, Catherine?" he repeated.
'"He's safe, and I'm free," she answered: "I should feel well -
but," she continued, with a bitterness she couldn't conceal, "you
have left me so long to struggle against death alone, that I feel
and see only death! I feel like death!"
'And she looked like it, too! I gave her a little wine. Hareton
and Joseph, who had been wakened by the ringing and the sound of
feet, and heard our talk from outside, now entered. Joseph was
fain, I believe, of the lad's removal; Hareton seemed a thought
Wuthering Heights |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: Sound, despite its persistent rage where we were.
Throughout
the day we all listened anxiously and tried to get Lake at intervals,
but invariably without results. About noon a positive frenzy of
wind stampeded out of the west, causing us to fear for the safety
of our camp; but it eventually died down, with only a moderate
relapse at 2 P.M. After three o’clock it was very quiet, and we
redoubled our efforts to get Lake. Reflecting that he had four
planes, each provided with an excellent short-wave outfit, we
could not imagine any ordinary accident capable of crippling all
his wireless equipment at once. Nevertheless the stony silence
At the Mountains of Madness |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: [1] Meaning apparently either simply to represent, or, sometimes
to DIVULGE, a mystery.
[2] , Ch. xv. 277.
[3] Myth, Ritual and Religion, i, 272.
Thus we begin to appreciate the serious nature and the
importance of the dance among primitive folk. To dub
a youth "a good dancer" is to pay him a great compliment.
Among the well-known inscriptions on the rocks in the
island of Thera in the Aegean sea there are many which
record in deeply graven letters the friendship and devotion
to each other of Spartan warrior-comrades; it seems
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
