| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe: revived my heart, and brought me into such a condition that
I never knew anything of in my life before. I was covered
with shame and tears for things past, and yet had at the same
time a secret surprising joy at the prospect of being a true
penitent, and obtaining the comfort of a penitent--I mean, the
hope of being forgiven; and so swift did thoughts circulate,
and so high did the impressions they had made upon me run,
that I thought I could freely have gone out that minute to
execution, without any uneasiness at all, casting my soul
entirely into the arms of infinite mercy as a penitent.
The good gentleman was so moved also in my behalf with a
Moll Flanders |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: that cabal, a person of quality was dispatched with the copy of
the articles against me. This envoy had instructions to
represent to the monarch of Blefuscu, "the great lenity of his
master, who was content to punish me no farther than with the
loss of mine eyes; that I had fled from justice; and if I did not
return in two hours, I should be deprived of my title of NARDAC,
and declared a traitor." The envoy further added, "that in order
to maintain the peace and amity between both empires, his master
expected that his brother of Blefuscu would give orders to have
me sent back to Lilliput, bound hand and foot, to be punished as
a traitor."
Gulliver's Travels |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: convincing merits or in the light of certain primordial and highly
baffling myth cycles; and on the other hand, sufficient influence
to deter the exploring world in general from any rash and over-ambitious
program in the region of those mountains of madness. It is an
unfortunate fact that relatively obscure men like myself and my
associates, connected only with a small university, have little
chance of making an impression where matters of a wildly bizarre
or highly controversial nature are concerned.
It is further
against us that we are not, in the strictest sense, specialists
in the fields which came primarily to be concerned. As a geologist,
At the Mountains of Madness |
