| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake: MY PRETTY ROSE TREE
A flower was offered to me,
Such a flower as May never bore;
But I said, 'I've a pretty rose tree,'
And I passed the sweet flower o'er.
Then I went to my pretty rose tree,
To tend her by day and by night;
But my rose turned away with jealousy,
And her thorns were my only delight.
AH, SUNFLOWER
Ah, sunflower, weary of time,
Songs of Innocence and Experience |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: My arms are hungry for you. Come, and we can rest together.
Come, my husband, come!"
There was something diabolically sweet in her tones, something of the tinkling
of glass when struck, which rang through the brains even of us who heard
the words addressed to another.
As for Arthur, he seemed under a spell, moving his hands from his face,
he opened wide his arms. She was leaping for them, when Van Helsing
sprang forward and held between them his little golden crucifix.
She recoiled from it, and, with a suddenly distorted face, full of rage,
dashed past him as if to enter the tomb.
When within a foot or two of the door, however, she stopped,
Dracula |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: new worlds to conquer by experimenting on the reanimation of detached
parts of bodies. He had wild and original ideas on the independent
vital properties of organic cells and nerve-tissue separated from
natural physiological systems; and achieved some hideous preliminary
results in the form of never-dying, artificially nourished tissue
obtained from the nearly hatched eggs of an indescribable tropical
reptile. Two biological points he was exceedingly anxious to settle
-- first, whether any amount of consciousness and rational action
be possible without the brain, proceeding from the spinal cord
and various nerve-centres; and second, whether any kind of ethereal,
intangible relation distinct from the material cells may exist
Herbert West: Reanimator |
