| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Just Folks by Edgar A. Guest: There is too much of pitiful dwelling
On plans that have failed to go right.
There is too much of envious pining
For luxuries others may claim.
Too much thought of wining and dining,
But I sing the love of my game.
There is too much of grim magnifying
The troubles that come with the day,
There is too much indifferent trying
To travel a care-beset way.
Too much do men think of gold-getting,
Just Folks |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: Thy banish'd trunk be found in our dominions,
The moment is thy death. Away! By Jupiter,
This shall not be revok'd.
Kent. Fare thee well, King. Since thus thou wilt appear,
Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.
[To Cordelia] The gods to their dear shelter take thee,
maid,
That justly think'st and hast most rightly said!
[To Regan and Goneril] And your large speeches may your
deeds
approve,
King Lear |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: far along that path of retrogression so common in many New England
backwaters. They have come to form a race by themselves, with
the well-defined mental and physical stigmata of degeneracy and
inbreeding. The average of their intelligence is woefully low,
whilst their annals reek of overt viciousness and of half-hidden
murders, incests, and deeds of almost unnameable violence and
perversity. The old gentry, representing the two or three armigerous
families which came from Salem in 1692, have kept somewhat above
the general level of decay; though many branches are sunk into
the sordid populace so deeply that only their names remain as
a key to the origin they disgrace. Some of the Whateleys and Bishops
The Dunwich Horror |
