| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: might vanish, like a glimmering light that comes we know not
whence and goes we know not whither. Beholding it, Hester was
constrained to rush towards the child -- to pursue the little elf
in the flight which she invariably began -- to snatch her to her
bosom with a close pressure and earnest kisses -- not so much
from overflowing love as to assure herself that Pearl was flesh
and blood, and not utterly delusive. But Pearl's laugh, when she
was caught, though full of merriment and music, made her mother
more doubtful than before.
Heart-smitten at this bewildering and baffling spell, that so
The Scarlet Letter |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Divine Comedy (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) by Dante Alighieri: Kind to his own and cruel to his foes;
And when it was created was his mind
Replete with such a living energy,
That in his mother her it made prophetic.
As soon as the espousals were complete
Between him and the Faith at holy font,
Where they with mutual safety dowered each other,
The woman, who for him had given assent,
Saw in a dream the admirable fruit
That issue would from him and from his heirs;
And that he might be construed as he was,
The Divine Comedy (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: at equator in middle of these ridges. In furrows between ridges
are curious growths - combs or wings that fold up and spread out
like fans. All greatly damaged but one, which gives almost seven-foot
wing spread. Arrangement reminds one of certain monsters of primal
myth, especially fabled Elder Things in Necronomicon.
"Their
wings seem to be membranous, stretched on frame work of glandular
tubing. Apparent minute orifices in frame tubing at wing tips.
Ends of body shriveled, giving no clue to interior or to what
has been broken off there. Must dissect when we get back to camp.
Can’t decide whether vegetable or animal. Many features obviously
At the Mountains of Madness |
