| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: consciousness.
At the same time they noticed that I had an inexplicable
command of many almost unknown sorts of knowledge - a command
which I seemed to wish to hide rather than display. I would inadvertently
refer, with casual assurance, to specific events in dim ages outside
of the range of accepted history - passing off such references
as a jest when I saw the surprise they created. And I had a way
of speaking of the future which two or three times caused actual
fright.
These uncanny flashes soon ceased to appear, though
some observers laid their vanishment more to a certain furtive
Shadow out of Time |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: that God both hears and knows.
As was the wont of Pharaoh's people and those before them! they said
our signs were lies, and we destroyed them in their sins, and
drowned Pharaoh's people; and all of them were evildoers.
Verily, the worst of beasts in God's eyes are those who misbelieve
and will not believe; with whom if thou dost make a league, they break
their league each time, for they fear not God; but shouldst thou
ever catch them in war, then make those who come after them run by
their example, haply they may remember then.
And shouldst thou ever fear from any people treachery, then throw it
back to them in like manner; verily, God loves not the treacherous.
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: worked out to the last detail, even to the woman's story in
case a hitch should occur in the program such as really did
happen. It is all perfectly plain to me."
"Well," said D'Arnot, "among other things, it has taught
you what I have been unable to impress upon you--that
the Rue Maule is a good place to avoid after dark."
"On the contrary," replied Tarzan, with a smile, "it has
convinced me that it is the one worth-while street in all
Paris. Never again shall I miss an opportunity to traverse it,
for it has given me the first real entertainment I have had
since I left Africa."
The Return of Tarzan |
