| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Prufrock/Other Observations by T. S. Eliot: Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp muttered in the dark.
The lamp hummed:
"Regard the moon,
La lune ne garde aucune rancune,
She winks a feeble eye,
She smiles into corners.
She smoothes the hair of the grass.
The moon has lost her memory.
A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Prufrock/Other Observations |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: half-aroused memory.
It came to me that this was the language
used by a captive mind I had known slightly in my dreams - a mind
from a large asteroid on which had survived much of the archaic
life and lore of the primal planet whereof it formed a fragment.
At the same time I recalled that this level of the archives was
devoted to volumes dealing with the non-terrestrial planets.
As
I ceased poring over this incredible document I saw that the light
of my torch was beginning to fail, hence quickly inserted the
extra battery I always had with me. Then, armed with the stronger
Shadow out of Time |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Richard III by William Shakespeare: My sovereign lord, I do beseech your Highness
To take our brother Clarence to your grace.
GLOUCESTER. Why, madam, have I off'red love for this,
To be so flouted in this royal presence?
Who knows not that the gentle Duke is dead?
[They all start]
You do him injury to scorn his corse.
KING EDWARD. Who knows not he is dead! Who knows
he is?
QUEEN ELIZABETH. All-seeing heaven, what a world is this!
BUCKINGHAM. Look I so pale, Lord Dorset, as the rest?
Richard III |
