| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: little lanes of grassy cobbles. It was a fever of the gods, a
fanfare of supernal trumpets and a clash of immortal cymbals.
Mystery hung about it as clouds about a fabulous unvisited mountain;
and as Carter stood breathless and expectant on that balustraded
parapet there swept up to him the poignancy and suspense of almost-vanished
memory, the pain of lost things and the maddening need to place
again what once had been an awesome and momentous place.
He
knew that for him its meaning must once have been supreme; though
in what cycle or incarnation he had known it, or whether in dream
or in waking, he could not tell. Vaguely it called up glimpses
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: "Beeee-e-e-a-trice!" fearfully close.
My lady had vanished, with one wild kick of her black-stocking
leg. A moment after, I heard her sustaining the reproaches of
her governess, and explaining her failure to answer with an
admirable lucidity and disingenuousness.
I felt it was unnecessary for me to be seen just then, and I
vanished guiltily round the corner into the West Wood, and so to
love-dreams and single-handed play, wandering along one of those
meandering bracken valleys that varied Bladesover park. And
that day and for many days that kiss upon my lips was a seal, and
by night the seed of dreams.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum: The three girls lay down upon one of the blankets--all in a row--and
the Wizard covered them with the other blanket and tucked them in.
Button-Bright crawled under the shelter of some bushes and was asleep
The Wizard sat down with his back to a big stone
and looked at the stars in the sky and thought gravely upon the
dangerous adventure they had undertaken, wondering if they would ever
be able to find their beloved Ozma again. The animals lay in a group
by themselves, a little distance from the others. "I've lost my
growl!" said Toto, who had been very silent and sober all that day.
"What do you suppose has become of it?"
"If you had asked me to keep track of your growl, I might be able to
The Lost Princess of Oz |
