| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Oscar Wilde Miscellaneous by Oscar Wilde: CURTAIN
LA SAINTE COURTISANE
OR, THE WOMAN COVERED WITH JEWELS
The scene represents the corner of a valley in the Thebaid. On the
right hand of the stage is a cavern. In front of the cavern stands
a great crucifix.
On the left [sand dunes].
The sky is blue like the inside of a cup of lapis lazuli. The hills
are of red sand. Here and there on the hills there are clumps of
thorns.
FIRST MAN. Who is she? She makes me afraid. She has a purple
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ursula by Honore de Balzac: would have been impossible--left their son free to choose his own
career; he might be a notary in Paris, king's-attorney in some
district, collector of customs no matter where, broker, or post
master, as he pleased. What fancy of his could they ever refuse him?
to what position of life might he not aspire as the son of a man about
whom the whole countryside, from Montargis to Essonne, was in the
habit of saying, "Pere Minoret doesn't even know how rich he is"?
This saying had obtained fresh force about four years before this
history begins, when Minoret, after selling his inn, built stables and
a splendid dwelling, and removed the post-house from the Grand'Rue to
the wharf. The new establishment cost two hundred thousand francs,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: the measureless age of the fragments, and Freeborn found traces
of symbols which fitted darkly into certain Papuan and Polynesian
legends of infinite antiquity. The condition and scattering of
the blocks told mutely of vertiginous cycles of time and geologic
upheavals of cosmic savagery.
We had an aëroplane with us, and
my son Wingate would often go up to different heights and scan
the sand-and-rock waste for signs of dim, large-scale outlines
- either differences of level or trails of scattered blocks. His
results were virtually negative; for whenever he would one day
think he had glimpsed some significant trend, he would on his
Shadow out of Time |
