| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: 5 Wandering here the radiant Calf finds none to fetter him,
and seeks
The Mother to declare his praise.
6 And now that great and mighty team, the team of horses that
are his,
And traces of his car, are seen.
7 The seven milk a single cow; the two set other five to work,
On the stream's loud-resounding bank.
8 Entreated by Vivasvan's ten, Indra cast down the water-jar
With threefold hammer from the sky.
9 Three times the newIy-kindled flame proceeds around the sacrifice:
The Rig Veda |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe: withdrew, they took him down, and, in their ignorance, sought to
call him back to life,--as if _that_ were any favor to him.
"Sartin, we 's been doin' a drefful wicked thing!" said
Sambo; "hopes Mas'r'll have to 'count for it, and not we."
They washed his wounds,--they provided a rude bed, of some
refuse cotton, for him to lie down on; and one of them, stealing
up to the house, begged a drink of brandy of Legree, pretending
that he was tired, and wanted it for himself. He brought it back,
and poured it down Tom's throat.
"O, Tom!" said Quimbo, "we's been awful wicked to ye!"
"I forgive ye, with all my heart!" said Tom, faintly.
Uncle Tom's Cabin |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: voiceless, sadistic monster that crept abroad. A few persons had
half seen it in the dark, and said it was white and like a malformed
ape or anthropomorphic fiend. It had not left behind quite all
that it had attacked, for sometimes it had been hungry. The number
it had killed was fourteen; three of the bodies had been in stricken
homes and had not been alive.
On the third night frantic bands
of searchers, led by the police, captured it in a house on Crane
Street near the Miskatonic campus. They had organised the quest
with care, keeping in touch by means of volunteer telephone stations,
and when someone in the college district had reported hearing
Herbert West: Reanimator |
