| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: For this ghastly experimenting it was necessary to have a constant
supply of very fresh human bodies; very fresh because even the
least decay hopelessly damaged the brain structure, and human
because we found that the solution had to be compounded differently
for different types of organisms. Scores of rabbits and guinea-pigs
had been killed and treated, but their trail was a blind one.
West had never fully succeeded because he had never been able
to secure a corpse sufficiently fresh. What he wanted were bodies
from which vitality had only just departed; bodies with every
cell intact and capable of receiving again the impulse toward
that mode of motion called life. There was hope that this second
Herbert West: Reanimator |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: punish them, what right have we to do it?
VERSE 3. For if a man think himself to be something, when he is
nothing, he deceiveth himself.
Again the Apostle takes the authors of sects to task for being hard-hearted
tyrants. They despise the weak and demand that everything be just so.
Nothing suits them except what they do. Unless you eulogize whatever
they say or do, unless you adapt yourself to their slightest whim, they
become angry with you. They are that way because, as St. Paul says, they
"think themselves to be something," they think they know all about the
Scriptures.
Paul has their number when he calls them zeros. They deceive themselves
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson: The cup of life's for him that drinks
And not for him that sips.
TO SYDNEY
NOT thine where marble-still and white
Old statues share the tempered light
And mock the uneven modern flight,
But in the stream
Of daily sorrow and delight
To seek a theme.
I too, O friend, have steeled my heart
Boldly to choose the better part,
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