| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: get this right.
"Objects are eight feet long all over. Six-foot,
five-ridged barrel torso three and five-tenths feet central diameter,
one foot end diameters. Dark gray, flexible, and infinitely tough.
Seven-foot membranous wings of same color, found folded, spread
out of furrows between ridges. Wing framework tubular or glandular,
of lighter gray, with orifices at wing tips. Spread wings have
serrated edge. Around equator, one at central apex of each of
the five vertical, stave-like ridges are five systems of light
gray flexible arms or tentacles found tightly folded to torso
but expansible to maximum length of over three feet. Like arms
At the Mountains of Madness |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from To-morrow by Joseph Conrad: weariness of such a life got worse as you got older.
What sort of trade was it in which more than half
your time you did not put your foot inside your
house? Directly you got out to sea you had no
means of knowing what went on at home. One
might have thought him weary of distant voyages;
and the longest he had ever made had lasted a fort-
night, of which the most part had been spent at
anchor, sheltering from the weather. As soon as
his wife had inherited a house and enough to live on
(from a bachelor uncle who had made some money
To-morrow |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Paradise Lost by John Milton: Good reason was thou freely shouldst dislike;
And be so minded still: I, ere thou spakest,
Knew it not good for Man to be alone;
And no such company as then thou sawest
Intended thee; for trial only brought,
To see how thou couldest judge of fit and meet:
What next I bring shall please thee, be assured,
Thy likeness, thy fit help, thy other self,
Thy wish exactly to thy heart's desire.
He ended, or I heard no more; for now
My earthly by his heavenly overpowered,
Paradise Lost |
