| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from My Aunt Margaret's Mirror by Walter Scott: species of lore to which I certainly gave more hours, at one
period of my life, than I should gain any credit by confessing.
AUGUST 1831.
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AUNT MARGARET'S MIRROR.
"There are times
When Fancy plays her gambols, in despite
Even of our watchful senses--when in sooth
Substance seems shadow, shadow substance seems--
When the broad, palpable, and mark'd partition
'Twixt that which is and is not seems dissolved,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: drillings revealed solid ground only twelve feet down through
the snow and ice at certain points, we made considerable use of
the small melting apparatus and sunk bores and performed dynamiting
at many places where no previous explorer had ever thought of
securing mineral specimens. The pre-Cambrian granites and beacon
sandstones thus obtained confirmed our belief that this plateau
was homogeneous, with the great bulk of the continent to the west,
but somewhat different from the parts lying eastward below South
America - which we then thought to form a separate and smaller
continent divided from the larger one by a frozen junction of
Ross and Weddell Seas, though Byrd has since disproved the hypothesis.
At the Mountains of Madness |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Kidnapped Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum: friends of the absent Santa Claus labored faithfully and intelligently
to carry out their master's ideas, and they made fewer errors than
might be expected under such unusual circumstances.
And, although they worked as swiftly as possible, day had begun to
break before the toys and other presents were all distributed; so for
the first time in many years the reindeer trotted into the Laughing
Valley, on their return, in broad daylight, with the brilliant sun
peeping over the edge of the forest to prove they were far behind
their accustomed hours.
Having put the deer in the stable, the little folk began to wonder how
they might rescue their master; and they realized they must discover,
A Kidnapped Santa Claus |
