| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Seraphita by Honore de Balzac: I was forced to remain here. But during the last two months chains
have been forged and riveted which bind me irrevocably to Jarvis, till
now I fear to end my days here. You know how I first met Seraphita,
what impression her look and voice made upon me, and how at last I was
admitted to her home where she receives no one. From the very first
day I have longed to ask you the history of this mysterious being. On
that day began, for me, a series of enchantments."
"Enchantments!" cried the pastor shaking the ashes of his pipe into an
earthen-ware dish full of sand, "are there enchantments in these
days?"
"You, who are carefully studying at this moment that volume of the
Seraphita |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: shelter from the increasing rainfall beneath one of the few undestroyed
Frye outbuildings, they debated the wisdom of waiting, or of taking
the aggressive and going down into the glen in quest of their
nameless, monstrous quarry. The downpour waxed in heaviness, and
distant peals of thunder sounded from far horizons. Sheet lightning
shimmered, and then a forky bolt flashed near at hand, as if descending
into the accursed glen itself. The sky grew very dark, and the
watchers hoped that the storm would prove a short, sharp one followed
by clear weather.
It was still gruesomely dark when, not much
over an hour later, a confused babel of voices sounded down the
The Dunwich Horror |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Love Songs by Sara Teasdale: Like a flame at the call of the wind
It leaped and burned;
Threw off its ashen cloak,
And gowned anew
Gave itself like a bride
Once more to you.
Message
I heard a cry in the night,
A thousand miles it came,
Sharp as a flash of light,
My name, my name!
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