| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Albert Savarus by Honore de Balzac: At the climax of the pleasure the poor unoccupied man derived from
this scheme, Rosalie said, as she kissed him, "Above all, do not tell
mamma who gave you the notion; she would scold me."
"Do not be afraid!" replied Monsieur de Watteville, who groaned as
bitterly as his daughter under the tyranny of the terrible descendant
of the Rupts.
So Rosalie had a certain prospect of seeing ere long a charming
observatory built, whence her eye would command the lawyer's private
room. And there are men for whose sake young girls can carry out such
masterstrokes of diplomacy, while, for the most part, like Albert
Savaron, they know it not.
Albert Savarus |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Proposed Roads To Freedom by Bertrand Russell: the field, they seek the satisfaction of the needs of
the moment, without much forethought, and without
considering that by sufficient effort the whole
conditions of their lives could be changed. A certain
percentage, guided by personal ambition, make the effort
of thought and will which is necessary to place
themselves among the more fortunate members of the
community; but very few among these are seriously
concerned to secure for all the advantages which they
seek for themselves. It is only a few rare and exceptional
men who have that kind of love toward mankind
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: mouth therein.
He might, I repeat, have prepared such sketches;
for those before us were quite obviously compiled, as our own
had been, from late sculptures somewhere in the glacial labyrinth,
though not from the ones which we had seen and used. But what
the art-blind bungler could never have done was to execute those
sketches in a strange and assured technique perhaps superior,
despite haste and carelessness, to any of the decadent carvings
from which they were taken - the characteristic and unmistakable
technique of the Old Ones themselves in the dead city’s heyday.
There are those who will say Danforth and I were utterly mad
At the Mountains of Madness |
