| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: The reflection that this sumptuous residence had been
his for a month, and that it daily stood waiting for him,
furnished and swept and provisioned for his coming,
did nothing to help the passing of time in the hot,
fagged City. More than once he had said resolutely that,
on the morrow, or at the worst the next day, he would
go--but in the event he had not gone. In the last week
of August he had proceeded to the length of sending his
niece and nephew Northward, and shutting up the house in
Ovington Square, and betaking himself to the Savoy Hotel.
This had appeared at the time to be almost equivalent
The Market-Place |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: water is flowing there electric currents should be formed. If a line
be imagined passing from Dover to Calais through the sea, and
returning through the land, beneath the water, to Dover, it traces
out a circuit of conducting matter one part of which, when the water
moves up or down the channel, is cutting the magnetic curves of the
earth, whilst the other is relatively at rest.... There is every
reason to believe that currents do run in the general direction of
the circuit described, either one way or the other, according as the
passage of the waters is up or down the channel.' This was written
before the submarine cable was thought of, and he once informed me
that actual observation upon that cable had been found to be in
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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: were to cast the flying army into the void of the boreal pole,
as the folds of a bag are gathered up to cast out the last bits
of substance therein.
Then he noticed with terror that the wings
of the night-gaunts were not flapping any more. The horned and
faceless steeds had folded their membranous appendages, and were
resting quite passive in the chaos of wind that whirled and chuckled
as it bore them on. A force not of earth had seized on the army,
and ghouls and night-gaunts alike were powerless before a current
which pulled madly and relentlessly into the north whence no mortal
had ever returned. At length a lone pallid light was seen on the
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
