| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: Lo, in few words I have made known unto thee my Master, my God,
and my Saviour; but thou shalt know him more perfectly, if thou
wilt receive his grace into thy soul, and gain the blessing to
become his servant."
VIII.
When the king's son had heard these words, there flashed a light
upon his soul. Rising from his seat in the fulness of his joy,
he embraced Barlaam, saying: "Most honoured sir, methinks this
might be that priceless stone which thou dost rightly keep
secret, not displaying it to all that would see it, but only to
these whose spiritual sense is strong. For lo, as these words
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mosses From An Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne: the trifles previously noticed--to confirm the idea of a
supernatural peril environing the pretty Polly. The stranger it
is true was evidently a thorough and practised man of the world,
systematic and self-possessed, and therefore the sort of a person
to whom a parent ought not to confide a simple, young girl
without due watchfulness for the result. The worthy magistrate
who had been conversant with all degrees and qualities of
mankind, could not but perceive every motion and gesture of the
distinguished Feathertop came in its proper place; nothing had
been left rude or native in him; a well-digested conventionalism
had incorporated itself thoroughly with his substance and
Mosses From An Old Manse |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: sending to camp for electric torches. Will extend search area
underground by hacking away stalactites."
"Still later. Have
found peculiar soapstone fragment about six inches across and
an inch and a half thick, wholly unlike any visible local formation
- greenish, but no evidences to place its period. Has curious
smoothness and regularity. Shaped like five-pointed star with
tips broken off, and signs of other cleavage at inward angles
and in center of surface. Small, smooth depression in center of
unbroken surface. Arouses much curiosity as to source and weathering.
Probably some freak of water action. Carroll, with magnifier,
At the Mountains of Madness |
