| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: the city, and the answer of the horns and viols and voices peals
out from the seven lodges by the garden gates, there issue from
the seven doors of the temple long columns of masked and hooded
priests in black, bearing at arm's length before them great golden
bowls from which a curious steam rises. And all the seven columns
strut peculiarly in single file, legs thrown far forward without
bending the knees, down the walks that lead to the seven lodges,
wherein they disappear and do not appear again. It is said that
subterrene paths connect the lodges with the temple, and that
the long files of priests return through them; nor is it unwhispered
that deep flights of onyx steps go down to mysteries that are
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: wounded man and a stream of blood spouted afresh from the
wound when he at length drew breath; then, fixing his eyes
upon Grimaud with a singular expression, the dying man
uttered the last death-rattle and expired.
Then Grimaud, lifting the dagger from the pool of blood
which was gliding along the room, to the horror of all
present, made a sign to the host to follow him, paid him
with a generosity worthy of his master and again mounted his
horse. Grimaud's first intention had been to return to
Paris, but he remembered the anxiety which his prolonged
absence might occasion Raoul, and reflecting that there were
Twenty Years After |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dreams by Olive Schreiner: companies, but most laboured singly. And I saw the drops of sweat fall
from their foreheads, and the muscles of their arms stand out with labour.
And I said, "I had not thought in heaven to see men labour so!" And I
thought of the garden where men sang and loved, and I wondered that any
should choose to labour on that bare mountain-side. And I saw upon the
foreheads of the men as they worked a light, and the drops which fell from
them as they worked had light.
And I asked God what they were seeking for.
And God touched my eyes, and I saw that what they found were small stones,
which had been too bright for me to see before; and I saw that the light of
the stones and the light on the men's foreheads was the same. And I saw
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