| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Aesop's Fables by Aesop: friendship."
"Why, that is good news," said the Cock; "and there I see some
one coming, with whom we can share the good tidings." And so
saying he craned his neck forward and looked afar off.
"What is it you see?" said the Fox.
"It is only my master's Dog that is coming towards us. What,
going so soon?" he continued, as the Fox began to turn away as
soon as he had heard the news. "Will you not stop and
congratulate the Dog on the reign of universal peace?"
"I would gladly do so," said the Fox, "but I fear he may not
have heard of King Lion's decree."
Aesop's Fables |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: delicate pottery baked by the artists of Bahama, and the strange
little figures carved from Ngranek's ancient lava. For this they
were paid in the wool of Ulthar and the iridescent textiles of
Hatheg and the ivory that the black men carve across the river
in Parg. Carter made arrangements with the captain to go to Baharna
and was told that the voyage would take ten days. And during his
week of waiting he talked much with that captain of Ngranek, and
was told that very few had seen the carven face thereon; but that
most travellers are content to learn its legends from old people
and lava-gatherers and image-makers in Baharna and afterward say
in their far homes that they have indeed beheld it. The captain
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: to you that she saw, or has ever seen, anything?"
My visitor's trouble, truly, was great. "Ah, miss, it isn't a matter on which
I can push her! Yet it isn't either, I must say, as if I much needed to.
It has made her, every inch of her, quite old."
"Oh, I see her perfectly from here. She resents, for all
the world like some high little personage, the imputation
on her truthfulness and, as it were, her respectability.
`Miss Jessel indeed--SHE!' Ah, she's `respectable,' the chit!
The impression she gave me there yesterday was, I assure you,
the very strangest of all; it was quite beyond any of the others.
I DID put my foot in it! She'll never speak to me again."
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