| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Critias by Plato: ships. Such was the military order of the royal city--the order of the
other nine governments varied, and it would be wearisome to recount their
several differences.
As to offices and honours, the following was the arrangement from the
first. Each of the ten kings in his own division and in his own city had
the absolute control of the citizens, and, in most cases, of the laws,
punishing and slaying whomsoever he would. Now the order of precedence
among them and their mutual relations were regulated by the commands of
Poseidon which the law had handed down. These were inscribed by the first
kings on a pillar of orichalcum, which was situated in the middle of the
island, at the temple of Poseidon, whither the kings were gathered together
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rivers to the Sea by Sara Teasdale: Makes the heart break.
Now while I watch the dreaming sea
With isles like flowers against her breast,
Only one voice in all the world
Could give me rest.
V
Night Song at Amalfi
I asked the heaven of stars
What I should give my love--
It answered me with silence,
Silence above.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: break.
Earl Sawyer went out to the Whateley place with both
sets of reporters and camera men, and called their attention to
the queer stench which now seemed to trickle down from the sealed
upper spaces. It was, he said, exactly like a smell he had found
in the toolshed abandoned when the house was finally repaired;
and like the faint odours which he sometimes thought he caught
near the stone circle on the mountains. Dunwich folk read the
stories when they appeared, and grinned over the obvious mistakes.
They wondered, too, why the writers made so much of the fact that
Old Whateley always paid for his cattle in gold pieces of extremely
The Dunwich Horror |
