| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: Hartwell, but in his calmer moments spoke of the imperative need
of a long conference with Rice and Morgan. His wilder wanderings
were very startling indeed, including frantic appeals that something
in a boarded-up farmhouse be destroyed, and fantastic references
to some plan for the extirpation of the entire human race and
all animal and vegetable life from the earth by some terrible
elder race of beings from another dimension. He would shout that
the world was in danger, since the Elder Things wished to strip
it and drag it away from the solar system and cosmos of matter
into some other plane or phase of entity from which it had once
fallen, vigintillions of aeons ago. At other times he would call
The Dunwich Horror |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rivers to the Sea by Sara Teasdale: Of all humanity.
Then I said, "Oh who am I
To scorn God to his face?
I will bow my head and stay
And suffer with my race."
GIFTS
I GAVE my first love laughter,
I gave my second tears,
I gave my third love silence
Thru all the years.
My first love gave me singing,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On Horsemanship by Xenophon: supposing he should have to enter the lists of battle on a sudden.
[8] Lit. "One reason for the praise which we bestow on this method of
mounting is that at the very instant of gaining his seat the
soldier finds himself fully prepared to engage the enemy on a
sudden, if occasion need."
But now, supposing the rider fairly seated, whether bareback or on a
saddle-cloth, a good seat is not that of a man seated on a chair, but
rather the pose of a man standing upright with his legs apart. In this
way he will be able to hold on to the horse more firmly by his thighs;
and this erect attitude will enable him to hurl a javelin or to strike
a blow from horseback, if occasion calls, with more vigorous effect.
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