| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Second Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln: departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a
living God always ascribe to him? Fondly do we hope--fervently
do we pray--that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by
the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil
shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn by the lash
shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said
three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The
judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in
the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on
Second Inaugural Address |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold
Them as They tread. By Their smell can men sometimes know Them
near, but of Their semblance can no man know, saving only in the
features of those They have begotten on mankind; and of those
are there many sorts, differing in likeness from man's truest
eidolon to that shape without sight or substance which is Them.
They walk unseen and foul in lonely places where the Words have
been spoken and the Rites howled through at their Seasons. The
wind gibbers with Their voices, and the earth mutters with Their
consciousness. They bend the forest and crush the city, yet may
not forest or city behold the hand that smites. Kadath in the
The Dunwich Horror |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain: treasure must be still in No. 2, the men would be
captured and jailed that day, and he and Tom could
seize the gold that night without any trouble or any
fear of interruption.
Just as breakfast was completed there was a knock
at the door. Huck jumped for a hiding-place, for
he had no mind to be connected even remotely with
the late event. The Welshman admitted several
ladies and gentlemen, among them the Widow Douglas,
and noticed that groups of citizens were climbing up
the hill -- to stare at the stile. So the news had spread.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
