| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Susan by Jane Austen: Churchhill! I had scarcely concluded my last, when Wilson brought me word
of it. I found, therefore, that something must be done; for I did not
choose to leave my character at the mercy of a man whose passions are so
violent and so revengeful. It would have been trifling with my reputation
to allow of his departing with such an impression in my disfavour; in this
light, condescension was necessary. I sent Wilson to say that I desired to
speak with him before he went; he came immediately. The angry emotions
which had marked every feature when we last parted were partially subdued.
He seemed astonished at the summons, and looked as if half wishing and half
fearing to be softened by what I might say. If my countenance expressed
what I aimed at, it was composed and dignified; and yet, with a degree of
Lady Susan |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: it was when the minds of the Great Race sped across the void from
that obscure, trans-galactic world known in the disturbing and
debatable Eltdown Shards as Yith.
The newcomers, with the instruments
they created, had found it easy to subdue the predatory entities
and drive them down to those caverns of inner earth which they
had already joined to their abodes and begun to inhabit.
Then
they had sealed the entrances and left them to their fate, afterward
occupying most of their great cities and preserving certain important
buildings for reasons connected more with superstition than with
Shadow out of Time |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: and
earth acknowledge.
6 Who knows that earliest day whereof thou speakest? Who hatb
beheld
it? Who can here declare it?
Great is the Law of Varuna and Mitra. What, wanton! wilt thou
say to
men to tempt them?
7 I, Yami, am possessed by love of Yama, that I may rest on
the same
couch beside him.
The Rig Veda |
