| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: and lethal desolation of the place were enough to overwhelm almost
any sensitive person, but added to these elements were the recent
unexplained horror at the camp, and the revelations all too soon
effected by the terrible mural sculptures around us. The moment
we came upon a perfect section of carving, where no ambiguity
of interpretation could exist, it took only a brief study to give
us the hideous truth - a truth which it would be naive to claim
Danforth and I had not independently suspected before, though
we had carefully refrained from even hinting it to each other.
There could now be no further merciful doubt about the nature
of the beings which had built and inhabited this monstrous dead
At the Mountains of Madness |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Louis Lambert by Honore de Balzac: that The Flesh shall be made the Word and become the Utterance of
God.
XXII
The Resurrection is the work of the Wind of Heaven sweeping over
the worlds. The angel borne on the Wind does not say: "Arise, ye
dead"; he says, "Arise, ye who live!"
Such are the meditations which I have with great difficulty cast in a
form adapted to our understanding. There are some others which Pauline
remembered more exactly, wherefore I know not, and which I wrote from
her dictation; but they drive the mind to despair when, knowing in
what an intellect they originated, we strive to understand them. I
Louis Lambert |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: And indeed he had no great desire to share his vague mistrust
with any one. There was a personal pleasure in it; the greatest
pleasure he had known at least since he had come from China.
He would keep the Baroness, for better or worse, to himself;
he had a feeling that he deserved to enjoy a monopoly of her,
for he was certainly the person who had most adequately gauged
her capacity for social intercourse. Before long it became
apparent to him that the Baroness was disposed to lay no tax
upon such a monopoly.
One day (he was sitting there again and playing with a fan)
she asked him to apologize, should the occasion present itself,
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