| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Poems by T. S. Eliot: Than Pipit's experience could provide.
I shall not want Pipit in Heaven:
Madame Blavatsky will instruct me
In the Seven Sacred Trances;
Piccarda de Donati will conduct me ...
. . . . . .
But where is the penny world I bought
To eat with Pipit behind the screen?
The red-eyed scavengers are creeping
From Kentish Town and Golder's Green;
Where are the eagles and the trumpets?
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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: as if I were a being infinitely removed from all that is normal
and healthful. This idea of a black, hidden horror connected with
incalculable gulfs of some sort of distance was oddly widespread
and persistent.
My own family formed no exception. From the
moment of my strange waking my wife had regarded me with extreme
horror and loathing, vowing that I was some utter alien usurping
the body of her husband. In 1910 she obtained a legal divorce,
nor would she ever consent to see me even after my return to normality
in 1913. These feelings were shared by my elder son and my small
daughter, neither of whom I have ever seen since.
Shadow out of Time |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: say, he does his silly utmost to prevent our reading and seeing
the one thing, the one sort of discussion we find--quite
naturally and properly--supremely interesting. So we don't
adolescence; we blunder up to sex. Dare--dare to look--and he
may dirt you for ever! The girls are terror-stricken to silence
by his significant whiskers, by the bleary something in his
eyes."
Suddenly Ewart, with an almost Jack-in-the-box effect, sat up.
"He's about us everywhere, Ponderevo," he said, very solemnly.
"Sometimes--sometimes I think he is--in our blood. In MINE."
He regarded me for my opinion very earnestly, with his pipe in
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