| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: disgusting and almost incomprehensible to a youth of West’s logical
temperament. Only greater maturity could help him understand the
chronic mental limitations of the "professor-doctor" type -- the
product of generations of pathetic Puritanism; kindly, conscientious,
and sometimes gentle and amiable, yet always narrow, intolerant,
custom-ridden, and lacking in perspective. Age has more charity
for these incomplete yet high-souled characters, whose worst real
vice is timidity, and who are ultimately punished by general ridicule
for their intellectual sins -- sins like Ptolemaism, Calvinism,
anti-Darwinism, anti-Nietzscheism, and every sort of Sabbatarianism
and sumptuary legislation. West, young despite his marvellous
Herbert West: Reanimator |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Aesop's Fables by Aesop: two curious things sticking out of the hay?" And when the stable
boys came to look they discovered the Hart, and soon made an end
of him. He thus learnt that
Nothing escapes the master's eye.
The Fox and the Grapes
One hot summer's day a Fox was strolling through an orchard
till he came to a bunch of Grapes just ripening on a vine which
had been trained over a lofty branch. "Just the thing to quench
my thirst," quoth he. Drawing back a few paces, he took a run and
a jump, and just missed the bunch. Turning round again with a
One, Two, Three, he jumped up, but with no greater success. Again
Aesop's Fables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: On the day when the earth shall be cleft asunder from them
swiftly;-that is a gathering together which is easy to us!
We know what they say; nor art thou over them one to compel.
Wherefore remind, by the Koran, him who fears the threat.
THE CHAPTER OF THE SCATTERERS
(LI. Mecca.)
IN the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
By the scatterers who scatter! and by those pregnant with their
burden! and by those running on easily! and by the distributors of
affairs!-verily, what ye are threatened with is surely true!
And, verily, the judgment will surely take place!
The Koran |
