| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells: "Ostrog is at the wind-vane offices ready--. Even
now there is a rumour of fighting beginning."
The man who had called himself Lincoln came close
to him. "Ostrog has it planned. Trust him. We
have our organisations ready. We shall seize the
flying stages--. Even now he may be doing that.
Then--"
"This public theatre," bawled the man in yellow,
"is only a contingent. We have five myriads of
drilled men--"
"We have arms," cried Lincoln. "We have plans.
When the Sleeper Wakes |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: was a window about three or four feet from the floor, protected by
rusty iron bars which had been sawed through, leaving the opening
free. It was a small window, but it was large enough to allow a man
of much greater size than Muller to pass through it. The detective
blew out his candle and climbed up onto the window sill. He found
himself outside, in a corner of the churchyard. A thicket of heavy
bushes grown up over neglected graves completely hid the opening
through which he had come. There were thorns on these bushes and
also a few scattered roses, dark yellow roses.
Muller walked thoughtfully through the churchyard. The sexton sat
huddled in an unhappy heap at the gate. He looked up in alarm as he
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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: whose place and meaning have haunted you through the halls of
waking and the gulfs of dreaming, and tormented you with hints
of vanished memory and the pain of lost things awesome and momentous.
Not hard to find is that symbol and relic of your days of wonder,
for truly, it is but the stable and eternal gem wherein all that
wonder sparkles crystallised to light your evening path. Behold!
It is not over unknown seas but back over well-known years that
your quest must go; back to the bright strange things of infancy
and the quick sun-drenched glimpses of magic that old scenes brought
to wide young eyes.
"For know you, that your gold and marble
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
