| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: into the branches above delayed it momentarily in its steady
journey toward the east. To its sensitive nostrils came the
subtle unseen spoor of many a tender four-footed creature,
bringing the slaver of hunger to the cruel, drooping jowl.
But steadfastly it kept on its way, strangely ignoring the
cravings of appetite that at another time would have sent
the rolling, fur-clad muscles flying at some soft throat.
All that night the creature pursued its lonely way, and the
next day it halted only to make a single kill, which it tore
to fragments and devoured with sullen, grumbling rumbles as
though half famished for lack of food.
The Beasts of Tarzan |
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: were not numerous. When one did occur, the exiled mind from the
future was treated with the utmost kindness till the dissolution
of its unfamiliar tenement.
The Great Race seemed to form a
single, loosely knit nation or league, with major institutions
in common, though there were four definite divisions. The political
and economic system of each unit was a sort of fascistic socialism,
with major resources rationally distributed, and power delegated
to a small governing board elected by the votes of all able to
pass certain educational and psychological tests. Family organisation
was not overstressed, though ties among persons of common descent
Shadow out of Time |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of the Registered Letter by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: The letter would have come in time to prevent Graumann's conviction
without his assistance, he says. The only person whose gratitude he
has a right to is Prosecuting Attorney Gustav Schmidt. He managed
to have the Police Commissioner in G- read the letter in detail to
the attorney. But Muller himself knows that it failed of its effect,
so far as that dignitary was concerned. For nothing but open
ridicule could ever convince a man of such decided opinions that he
is not the one infallible person in the world.
But Albert Graumann had learned his lesson. And he told Muller
himself that the few days of life which might remain to him were a
gift to him from the detective. He felt that his weak heart would
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