| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: while occasional areas had an uncanny air of newly swept immaculateness.
Of course, where rifts or collapses had occurred, the lower levels
were as littered as the upper ones. A central court - as in other
structures we had seen from the air - saved the inner regions
from total darkness; so that we seldom had to use our electric
torches in the upper rooms except when studying sculptured details.
Below the ice cap, however, the twilight deepened; and in many
parts of the tangled ground level there was an approach to absolute
blackness.
To form even a rudimentary idea of our thoughts and
feelings as we penetrated this aeon-silent maze of unhuman masonry,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Alexandria and her Schools by Charles Kingsley: or impostors; old wisdom is obtaining a fairer hearing day by day, and
is found not to be so contradictory to new wisdom as was supposed. We
are beginning, too, to be more inclined to justify Providence, by
believing that lies are by their very nature impotent and doomed to die;
that everything which has had any great or permanent influence on the
human mind, must have in it some germ of eternal truth; and setting
ourselves to separate that germ of truth from the mistakes which may
have distorted and overlaid it. Let us believe, or at least hope, the
same for a few minutes, of Philo, and try to find out what was the
secret of his power, what the secret of his weakness.
First: I cannot think that he had to treat his own sacred books
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Silas Marner by George Eliot: clearly of a mind free from all disavowed devices.
Places of honour had been kept for the Miss Lammeters near the head
of the principal tea-table in the wainscoted parlour, now looking
fresh and pleasant with handsome branches of holly, yew, and laurel,
from the abundant growths of the old garden; and Nancy felt an
inward flutter, that no firmness of purpose could prevent, when she
saw Mr. Godfrey Cass advancing to lead her to a seat between himself
and Mr. Crackenthorp, while Priscilla was called to the opposite
side between her father and the Squire. It certainly did make some
difference to Nancy that the lover she had given up was the young
man of quite the highest consequence in the parish--at home in a
Silas Marner |
