| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Intentions by Oscar Wilde: into its lips to say. Sometimes, when I listen to the overture to
TANNHAUSER, I seem indeed to see that comely knight treading
delicately on the flower-strewn grass, and to hear the voice of
Venus calling to him from the caverned hill. But at other times it
speaks to me of a thousand different things, of myself, it may be,
and my own life, or of the lives of others whom one has loved and
grown weary of loving, or of the passions that man has known, or of
the passions that man has not known, and so has sought for. To-
night it may fill one with that [Greek text which cannot be
reproduced], that AMOUR DE L'IMPOSSIBLE, which falls like a madness
on many who think they live securely and out of reach of harm, so
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from First Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln: without restriction, in one section, while fugitive slaves,
now only partially surrendered, would not be surrendered
at all by the other.
Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our
respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall
between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of
the presence and beyond the reach of each other; but the different
parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain
face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile,
must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make
that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: Once a lookout reported fires on the hills to the east, but the
sleepy captain said they had better not be looked at too much,
since it was highly uncertain just who or what had lit them.
In
the morning the river had broadened out greatly, and Carter saw
by the houses along the banks that they were close to the vast
trading city of Hlanith on the Cerenerian Sea. Here the walls
are of rugged granite, and the houses peakedly fantastic with
beamed and plastered gables. The men of Hlanith are more like
those of the waking world than any others in dreamland; so that
the city is not sought except for barter, but is prized for the
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
