| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The People That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: upon me, dropping me to earth. Like a frightened ecca I
leaped to my feet and raced for the sheltering sanctuary of the
forest, where I knew neither could follow or seize me. Then I
turned and looked back to see two great reptiles tear my
abductor asunder and devour him on the spot.
"I was saved; yet I felt that I was lost. How far I was from
the country of the Galus I could not guess; nor did it seem
probable that I ever could make my way in safety to my native land.
"Day was breaking; soon the carnivora would stalk forth for
their first kill; I was armed only with my knife. About me was
a strange landscape--the flowers, the trees, the grasses, even,
The People That Time Forgot |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: with infinite suggestions of nighted mystery, now confronted me.
For that stream of air could argue but one thing - a hidden gulf
of great size beneath the disordered blocks on the surface.
My
first thought was of the sinister blackfellow legends of vast
underground huts among the megaliths where horrors happen and
great winds are born. Then thoughts of my own dreams came back,
and I felt dim pseudo-memories tugging at my mind. What manner
of place lay below me? What primal, inconceivable source of age-old
myth-cycles and haunting nightmares might I be on the brink of
uncovering?
Shadow out of Time |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lucile by Owen Meredith: He knock'd lightly. No answer. The handle he tried:
The door open'd: he enter'd the room undescried.
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No brighter than is that dim circlet of light
Which enhaloes the moon when rains form on the night,
The pale lamp an indistinct radiance shed
Round the chamber, in which at her pure snowy bed
Matilda was kneeling; so wrapt in deep prayer
That she knew not her husband stood watching her there.
With the lamplight the moonlight had mingled a faint
And unearthly effulgence which seem'd to acquaint
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