| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: grandfather's diary the following pregnant entry: `THE
LIGHTKEEPERS, AGREEING ILL, KEEP ONE ANOTHER TO THEIR DUTY.'
But the Scottish system was not alone founded on this cynical
opinion. The dignity and the comfort of the northern
lightkeeper were both attended to. He had a uniform to `raise
him in his own estimation, and in that of his neighbour, which
is of consequence to a person of trust. The keepers,' my
grandfather goes on, in another place, `are attended to in all
the detail of accommodation in the best style as shipmasters;
and this is believed to have a sensible effect upon their
conduct, and to regulate their general habits as members of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: to return her to her people.
I was about to ask Kantos Kan to prosecute a further
search for her when a flier from the flagship of the fleet
arrived at the Xavarian with an officer bearing a message
to Kantos Kan from Arras.
My friend read the dispatch and then turned to me.
"Zat Arras commands me to bring our 'prisoners' before
him. There is naught else to do. He is supreme in Helium,
yet it would be far more in keeping with chivalry and good
taste were he to come hither and greet the saviour of
Barsoom with the honours that are his due."
The Gods of Mars |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: one met only the primal blackness of the void save aloft where
the thin peaks stood out goblin-like. Soon the peaks were very
far away, and nothing about but great rushing winds with the dankness
of nethermost grottoes in them. Then in the end the night-gaunts
landed on a floor of unseen things which felt like layers of bones,
and left Carter all alone in that black valley. To bring him thither
was the duty of the night-gaunts that guard Ngranek; and this
done, they flapped away silently. When Carter tried to trace their
flight he found he could not, since even the Peaks of Throk had
faded out of sight. There was nothing anywhere but blackness and
horror and silence and bones.
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
