| 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: by a party of ghasts. Though ghasts cannot live in real light,
they can endure the grey twilight of the abyss for hours.
So
at length Carter crawled through endless burrows with three helpful
ghouls bearing the slate gravestone of Col. Nepemiah Derby, obit
1719, from the Charter Street Burying Ground in Salem. When they
came again into open twilight they were in a forest of vast lichened
monoliths reaching nearly as high as the eye could see and forming
the modest gravestones of the Gugs. On the right of the hole out
of which they wriggled, and seen through aisles of monoliths,
was a stupendous vista of cyclopean round towers mounting up illimitable
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tour Through Eastern Counties of England by Daniel Defoe: come on when they thought fit, for that they (the Royalists) were
ready for them. This held to the 19th.
20th. The Lord Fairfax returned what he said was his last answer,
and should be the last offer of mercy. The conditions offered
were, that upon a peaceable surrender, all soldiers and officers
under the degree of a captain in commission should have their
lives, be exempted from plunder, and have passes to go to their
respective dwellings. All the captains and superior officers, with
all the lords and gentlemen, as well in commission as volunteers,
to surrender prisoners at discretion, only that they should not be
plundered by the soldiers.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress
in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered
only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked
by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler
of a free People.
Nor have We been wanting in attention to our British brethren.
We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their
legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.
We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and
settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice
and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our
United States Declaration of Independence |
