| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: Later maps, which display the land mass as cracking and drifting,
and sending certain detached parts northward, uphold in a striking
way the theories of continental drift lately advanced by Taylor,
Wegener, and Joly.
With the upheaval of new land in the South
Pacific tremendous events began. Some of the marine cities were
hopelessly shattered, yet that was not the worst misfortune. Another
race - a land race of beings shaped like octopi and probably corresponding
to fabulous prehuman spawn of Cthulhu - soon began filtering down
from cosmic infinity and precipitated a -monstrous war which for
a time drove the Old Ones wholly back to the sea - a colossal
At the Mountains of Madness |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: and mail, with sword and lance, to open the road to the Holy
Sepulchre, and protect the chosen saints and anchorites who yet
dwell in this land of promise and of miracle."
"Nazarene," said the Moslem, "in this the Greeks and Syrians have
much belied us, seeing we do but after the word of Abubeker
Alwakel, the successor of the Prophet, and, after him, the first
commander of true believers. 'Go forth,' he said, 'Yezed Ben
Sophian,' when he sent that renowned general to take Syria from
the infidels; 'quit yourselves like men in battle, but slay
neither the aged, the infirm, the women, nor the children. Waste
not the land, neither destroy corn and fruit-trees; they are the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Othello by William Shakespeare: And cannot make away
Iago. Oh treacherous Villaines:
What are you there? Come in, and giue some helpe
Rod. O helpe me there
Cassio. That's one of them
Iago. Oh murd'rous Slaue! O Villaine!
Rod. O damn'd Iago! O inhumane Dogge!
Iago. Kill men i'th' darke?
Where be these bloody Theeues?
How silent is this Towne? Hoa, murther, murther.
What may you be? Are you of good, or euill?
Othello |
