| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen: "I don't feel very well, Villiers, I am subject to
these attacks. Pour me out a little wine; thanks, that will do.
I shall feel better in a few minutes."
Villiers picked up the fallen sketch and turned it over
as Clarke had done.
"You saw that?" he said. "That's how I identified it
as being a portrait of Herbert's wife, or I should say his
widow. How do you feel now?"
"Better, thanks, it was only a passing faintness. I
don't think I quite catch your meaning. What did you say
enabled you to identify the picture?"
The Great God Pan |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft: horseback started off in full tilt, with their blood-
hounds, in pursuit of Frank and Mary.
On arriving at Savannah, the hunters found that
the fugitives had sold the horses and trap, and
embarked as free white persons, for New York.
Slator's disappointment and rascality so preyed
upon his base mind, that he, like Judas, went and
hanged himself.
As soon as Frank and Mary were safe, they
endeavoured to redeem their good mother. But,
alas! she was gone; she had passed on to the
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: done, they flapped away silently. When Carter tried to trace their
flight he found he could not, since even the Peaks of Throk had
faded out of sight. There was nothing anywhere but blackness and
horror and silence and bones.
Now Carter knew from a certain
source that he was in the vale of Pnoth, where crawl and burrow
the enormous Dholes; but he did not know what to expect, because
no one has ever seen a Dhole or even guessed what such a thing
may be like. Dholes are known only by dim rumour, from the rustling
they make amongst mountains of bones and the slimy touch they
have when they wriggle past one. They cannot be seen because they
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
