| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: to keep awake lest sleep loose his hold and send him down the
dizzy miles of air to the crags and sharp rocks of the accursed
valley. The stars came out, but save for them there was only black
nothingness in his eyes; nothingness leagued with death, against
whose beckoning he might do no more than cling to the rocks and
lean back away from an unseen brink. The last thing of earth that
he saw in the gloaming was a condor soaring close to the westward
precipice beside him, and darting screaming away when it came
near the cave whose mouth yawned just out of reach.
Suddenly,
without a warning sound in the dark, Carter felt his curved scimitar
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Three Taverns by Edwin Arlington Robinson: If now I sing Him a new song?
Your world is in yourself, my friend,
For your endurance to the end;
And all the Peace there is on Earth
Is faith in what your world is worth,
And saying, without any lies,
Your world could not be otherwise."
"One might say that and then be shot,"
I told him; and he said: "Why not?"
I ceased, and gave him rather more
Than he was counting of my store.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum: ground in safety. He hugged first Ozma and then
Dorothy, while all the Skeezers cheered as loud as they
could.
The Wizard now discovered that the rope was long
enough to reach from the top of the Dome to the ground
when doubled, so he tied a chair to one end of the rope
and called to Glinda to sit in the chair while he and
some of the Skeezers lowered her to the pavement. In
this way the Sorceress reached the ground quite
comfortably and the three Adepts and Ervic soon
followed her.
Glinda of Oz |
