| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare: Each envious briar his weary legs doth scratch,
Each shadow makes him stop, each murmur stay:
For misery is trodden on by many,
And being low never reliev'd by any. 708
'Lie quietly, and hear a little more;
Nay, do not struggle, for thou shalt not rise:
To make thee hate the hunting of the boar,
Unlike myself thou hear'st me moralize, 712
Applying this to that, and so to so;
For love can comment upon every woe.
'Where did I leave?' 'No matter where,' quoth he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Yates Pride by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: carriage with incredible speed.
"But, Eudora --"
"I must go," she called back, faintly. The man stood staring
after the hurrying figure with its swishing black skirts and its
flying points of rich India shawl, and he smiled happily and
tenderly. That evening at the inn his caller, a young fellow
just married and beaming with happiness, saw an answering beam in
the older man's face. He broke off in the midst of a sentence
and stared at him.
"Don't give me away until I tell you to, Ned," he said, "but I
don't know but I am going to follow your example."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: and loathing.
For it had been a man. This much was clear despite
the nauseous eyes, the voiceless simianism, and the daemoniac
savagery. They dressed its wound and carted it to the asylum at
Sefton, where it beat its head against the walls of a padded cell
for sixteen years -- until the recent mishap, when it escaped
under circumstances that few like to mention. What had most disgusted
the searchers of Arkham was the thing they noticed when the monster’s
face was cleaned -- the mocking, unbelievable resemblance to a
learned and self-sacrificing martyr who had been entombed but
three days before -- the late Dr. Allan Halsey, public benefactor
Herbert West: Reanimator |
