| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: Complex cases of the displacement of exploring or already captive
minds by minds in various regions of the past had been known and
carefully rectified. In every age since the discovery of mind
projection, a minute but well-recognised element of the population
consisted of Great Race minds from past ages, sojourning for a
longer or shorter while.
When a captive mind of alien origin
was returned to its own body in the future, it was purged by an
intricate mechanical hypnosis of all it had learned in the Great
Race's age - this because of certain troublesome consequences
inherent in the general carrying forward of knowledge in large
Shadow out of Time |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey: life.
And Venters thought with lightning swiftness, "I've saved
her--I've unlinked her from that old life--she was watching as if
I were all she had left on earth--she belongs to me!" The thought
was startlingly new. Like a blow it was in an unprepared moment.
The cheery salutation he had ready for her died unborn and he
tumbled the pieces of pottery awkwardly on the grass while some
unfamiliar, deep-seated emotion, mixed with pity and glad
assurance of his power to succor her, held him dumb.
"What a load you had!" she said. "Why, they're pots and crocks!
Where did you get them?"
Riders of the Purple Sage |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: sometimes the steepness of the rocks required her to use her
hands for safety. One day when the Virginian went with them to
help mark out certain boundary corners, she removed her rings
lest they should get scratched; and he, being just behind her,
took them during the climb.
"I see you're looking at my topaz," she had said, as he returned
them. "If I could have chosen, it would have been a ruby. But I
was born in November."
He did not understand her in the least, but her words awakened
exceeding interest in him; and they had descended some five miles
of mountain before he spoke again. Then he became ingenious, for
The Virginian |
