| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Arizona Nights by Stewart Edward White: turned to see what damage had been done.
We were some relieved to find the family all right, but Texas
Pete had bored one of them poor old crow-bait hosses plumb
through the head.
"It's lucky for you you don't get the old man," says Gentleman
Tim very quiet and polite.
Which Gentleman Tim was an Irishman, and I'd been on the range
long enough with him to know that when he got quiet and polite it
was time to dodge behind something.
"I hope, sir" says he to the stranger, "that you will give your
wife and baby a satisfying drink. As for your hoss, pray do not
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: to hold him from his quest. It is understood in the land of dream
that the Other Gods have many agents moving among men; and all
these agents, whether wholly human or slightly less than human,
are eager to work the will of those blind and mindless things
in return for the favour of their hideous soul and messenger,
the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep. So Carter inferred that the merchants
of the humped turbans, hearing of his daring search for the Great
Ones in their castle of Kadath, had decided to take him away and
deliver him to Nyarlathotep for whatever nameless bounty might
be offered for such a prize. What might be the land of those merchants
in our known universe or in the eldritch spaces outside, Carter
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Crowd by Gustave le Bon: whatever the goal they aim at. The acquisition of knowledge for
which no use can be found is a sure method of driving a man to
revolt.[11]
[11] This phenomenon, moreover, is not peculiar to the Latin
peoples. It is also to be observed in China, which is also a
country in the hands of a solid hierarchy of mandarins or
functionaries, and where a function is obtained, as in France, by
competitive examination, in which the only test is the
imperturbable recitation of bulky manuals. The army of educated
persons without employment is considered in China at the present
day as a veritable national calamity. It is the same in India
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