| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: French boarding-house on Fourth Street. I made out that his real
name was the Count Talleyrand de Perigord - a priest right
enough, but sorely come down in the world. He'd been King
Louis' Ambassador to England a year or two back, before the
French had cut off King Louis' head; and, by what I heard, that
head wasn't hardly more than hanging loose before he'd run back
to Paris and prevailed on Danton, the very man which did the
murder, to send him back to England again as Ambassador of the
French Republic! That was too much for the English, so they
kicked him out by Act of Parliament, and he'd fled to the
Americas without money or friends or prospects. I'm telling you
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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: have slept long - hence the hours of my absence.
Of anything
strange either seen or experienced I hinted absolutely nothing
- exercising the greatest self-control in that respect. But I
spoke of a change of mind regarding the whole work of the expedition,
and urged a halt in all digging toward the northeast. My reasoning
was patently weak - for I mentioned a dearth of blocks, a wish
not to offend the superstitious miners, a possible shortage of
funds from the college, and other things either untrue or irrelevant.
Naturally, no one paid the least attention to my new wishes -
not even my son, whose concern for my health was obvious.
Shadow out of Time |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: ship, and when he was working with the prospectors, and since he had joined
the troop; but it had been in a vague way; he had not distinctly seen and
felt her. But tonight he wished for her as he used to when he was a small
boy and lay in his bed in the next room, and saw her shadow through the
door as she bent over her wash-tub earning the money which was to feed and
clothe him. He remembered how he called her and she came and tucked him in
and called him "Little Simon," which was his second name and had been his
father's, and which she only called him when he was in bed at night, or
when he was hurt.
He sat there staring into the blaze. He resolved he would make a great
deal of money, and she should live with him. He would build a large house
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