| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: When I diffidently hinted to
others about my impressions I met with varied responses. Some
persons looked uncomfortably at me, but men in the mathematics
department spoke of new developments in those theories of relativity
- then discussed only in learned circles - which were later to
become so famous. Dr. Albert Einstein, they said, was rapidly
reducing time to the status of a mere dimension.
But the dreams
and disturbed feelings gained on me, so that I had to drop my
regular work in 1915. Certainly the impressions were taking an
annoying shape - giving me the persistent notion that my amnesia
Shadow out of Time |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson: Thenceforth his terror-haunted flight
He follows through the starry night;
And with the early morning breeze,
Behold him on the azure seas.
The master of a trading dandy
Hires Robin for a go of brandy;
And all the happy hills of home
Vanish beyond the fields of foam.
Ben, meanwhile, like a tin reflector,
Attended on the worthy rector;
Opened his eyes and held his breath,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: a living creature?
"So for him, who hath made everything out of nothing, and still
doth make, it is not impossible to raise deadened and corrupt
bodies from the earth, that every man may be rewarded according
to his works; for he saith, `The present is the time for work,
the future for recompense.' Else, where were the justice of God,
if there were no Resurrection? Many righteous men in this
present life have suffered much ill-usage and torment, and have
died violent deaths; and the impious and the law-breaker hath
spent his days here in luxury and prosperity. But God, who is
good and just, hath appointed a day of resurrection and
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