| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: On the morning of October 26th a strong land blink appeared on
the south, and before noon we all felt a thrill of excitement
at beholding a vast, lofty, and snow-clad mountain chain which
opened out and covered the whole vista ahead. At last we had encountered
an outpost of the great unknown continent and its cryptic world
of frozen death. These peaks were obviously the Admiralty Range
discovered by Ross, and it would now be our task to round Cape
Adare and sail down the east coast of Victoria Land to our contemplated
base on the shore of McMurdo Sound, at the foot of the volcano
Erebus in South Latitude 77° 9'.
The last lap of the voyage
At the Mountains of Madness |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: the dirty sword? Tell me again, Hal, how the King grunted with
joy. Oh, let us tell the Master."
'So we reeled back to the chapel, arms round each other's
necks, and when we could speak - he thought we'd been fighting -
we told the Master. Yes, we told Torrigiano, and he laughed till
he rolled on the new cold pavement. Then he knocked our heads together.
'"Ah, you English!" he cried. "You are more than pigs. You
are English. Now you are well punished for your dirty fishes. Put
the draft in the fire, and never do so any more. You are a fool, Hal,
and you are a fool, Benedetto, but I need your works to please this
beautiful English King."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs: sides were blank walls and before him the river turned a sharp
corner and disappeared. Feeling his way cautiously forward he
approached the turn and looked around the corner. To his left
was a low platform about a foot above the level of the stream,
and onto this he lost no time in climbing, for he was soaked from
head to foot, cold and almost exhausted.
As he lay resting on the skull-paved shelf, he saw in the center
of the vault above the river another of those sinister round
holes through which he momentarily expected to see a headless
corpse shoot downward in its last plunge to a watery grave.
A few feet along the platform a closed door broke the blankness of
Out of Time's Abyss |
