| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dreams by Olive Schreiner: lay upon the earth. I said to God, "What was here once?"
God said, "A pleasure house."
I looked, and at my feet great pillars lay. I cried aloud for joy to God,
"The marble blossoms!"
God said, "Ay, 'twas a fairy house. There has not been one like to it, nor
ever shall be. The pillars and the porticoes blossomed; and the wine cups
were as gathered flowers: on this side all the curtain was broidered with
fair designs, the stitching was of gold."
I said to God, "How came it that it fell?"
God said, "On the side of the wine-press it was dark."
And as we travelled, we came where lay a mighty ridge of sand, and a dark
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Egmont by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Direful hate and eternal separation from the crown of Spain would, on the
instant, be forcibly declared.
Orange. The flames would then rage over our grave, and the blood of our
enemies flow, a vain oblation. Let us consider, Egmont.
Egmont. But how could they effect this purpose?
Orange. Alva is on the way.
Egmont. I do not believe it.
Orange. I know it.
Egmont. The Regent appeared to know nothing of it.
Orange. And, therefore, the stronger is my conviction. The Regent will
give place to him. I know his blood-thirsty disposition, and he brings an
Egmont |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: were very startling indeed, including frantic appeals that something
in a boarded-up farmhouse be destroyed, and fantastic references
to some plan for the extirpation of the entire human race and
all animal and vegetable life from the earth by some terrible
elder race of beings from another dimension. He would shout that
the world was in danger, since the Elder Things wished to strip
it and drag it away from the solar system and cosmos of matter
into some other plane or phase of entity from which it had once
fallen, vigintillions of aeons ago. At other times he would call
for the dreaded Necronomicon and the Daemonolatreia of Remigius,
in which he seemed hopeful of finding some formula to check the
The Dunwich Horror |
