| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: from which I must soon awake. Perhaps I was in camp - perhaps
I was at home in Arkham. As these hopes bolstered up my sanity
I began to mount the incline to the higher level.
I knew, of
course, that I had the four-foot cleft to re-cross, yet was too
racked by other fears to realise the full horror until I came
almost upon it. On my descent, the leap across had been easy -
but could I clear the gap as readily when going uphill, and hampered
by fright, exhaustion, the weight of the metal case, and the anomalous
backward tug of that daemon wind? I thought of these things at
the last moment, and thought also of the nameless entities which
Shadow out of Time |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Kidnapped Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum: them for their evil words."
"But I don't hate 'em!" exclaimed Santa Claus positively. "Such
people do me no real harm, but merely render themselves and their
children unhappy. Poor things! I'd much rather help them any day
than injure them."
Indeed, the Daemons could not tempt old Santa Claus in any way. On
the contrary, he was shrewd enough to see that their object in
visiting him was to make mischief and trouble, and his cheery laughter
disconcerted the evil ones and showed to them the folly of such an
undertaking. So they abandoned honeyed words and determined to use force.
It was well known that no harm can come to Santa Claus while he is in
A Kidnapped Santa Claus |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: Clear as grey sea-weed in the swell
Of a sunny shallow sea.
But you I never understood,
Your spirit's secret hides like gold
Sunk in a Spanish galleon
Ages ago in waters cold.
Nightfall
We will never walk again
As we used to walk at night,
Watching our shadows lengthen
Under the gold street-light
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