| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Georgics by Virgil: Lend thy fresh beams our lagging months to cheer,
Where 'twixt the Maid and those pursuing Claws
A space is opening; see! red Scorpio's self
His arms draws in, yea, and hath left thee more
Than thy full meed of heaven: be what thou wilt-
For neither Tartarus hopes to call thee king,
Nor may so dire a lust of sovereignty
E'er light upon thee, howso Greece admire
Elysium's fields, and Proserpine not heed
Her mother's voice entreating to return-
Vouchsafe a prosperous voyage, and smile on this
Georgics |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: litanies the relics of Fray Diego were laid upon the prince's
pillow, and the sudarium, or mortuary cloth, which had covered his
face, was placed upon the prince's forehead.
Modern science might object that the presence of so many personages,
however pious or well intentioned, in a sick chamber on a hot
Spanish May day, especially as the bath had been, for some
generations past, held in religious horror throughout Spain, as a
sign of Moorish and Mussulman tendencies, might have somewhat
interfered with the chances of the poor boy's recovery.
Nevertheless the event seems to have satisfied Philip's highest
hopes; for that same night (so Don Carlos afterwards related) the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: vigorous physique. Toward the last I became acutely afraid of
West, for he began to look at me that way. People did not seem
to notice his glances, but they noticed my fear; and after his
disappearance used that as a basis for some absurd suspicions.
West, in reality, was more afraid than I; for his abominable
pursuits entailed a life of furtiveness and dread of every shadow.
Partly it was the police he feared; but sometimes his nervousness
was deeper and more nebulous, touching on certain indescribable
things into which he had injected a morbid life, and from which
he had not seen that life depart. He usually finished his experiments
with a revolver, but a few times he had not been quick enough.
Herbert West: Reanimator |
