| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: city the great mountain range became the seat of the principal
temples, and many carvings showed what grotesque and fantastic
towers had pierced the sky where now we saw only the curiously
clinging cubes and ramparts. In the course of ages the caves had
appeared, and had been shaped into adjuncts of the temples. With
the advance of still later epochs, all the limestone veins of
the region were hollowed out by ground waters, so that the mountains,
the foothills, and the plains below them were a veritable network
of connected caverns and galleries. Many graphic sculptures told
of explorations deep underground, and of the final discovery of
the Stygian sunless sea that lurked at earth’s bowels.
At the Mountains of Madness |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling: A song of little cunning; of a singer nothing worth.
Through the naked words and mean
May ye see the truth between
As the singer knew and touched it in the ends of all the Earth!
The Coastwise Lights
Our brows are bound with spindrift and the weed is on our knees;
Verses 1889-1896 |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Prufrock/Other Observations by T. S. Eliot: And go on drinking tea.
"Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall
My buried life, and Paris in the Spring
feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world
To be wonderful and youthful, after all."
The voice returns like the insistent out-of-tune
Of a broken violin on an August afternoon:
"I am always sure that you understand
My feelings, always sure that you feel,
Sure that across the gulf you reach your hand.
You are invulnerable, you have no Achilles’ heel.
Prufrock/Other Observations |
