| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde: manner, they could not restrain their feelings any longer.
'He is really far too ugly to be allowed to play in any place where
we are,' cried the Tulips.
'He should drink poppy-juice, and go to sleep for a thousand
years,' said the great scarlet Lilies, and they grew quite hot and
angry.
'He is a perfect horror!' screamed the Cactus. 'Why, he is twisted
and stumpy, and his head is completely out of proportion with his
legs. Really he makes me feel prickly all over, and if he comes
near me I will sting him with my thorns.'
'And he has actually got one of my best blooms,' exclaimed the
|
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton: till it come near to the place where the point of the hook first came out,
and then draw back that part of the worm that was above the shank or
arming of your hook, and so fish with it. And if you mean to fish with
two worms, then put the second on before you turn back the hook's-
head of the first worm. You cannot lose above two or three worms
before you attain to what I direct you; and having attained it, you will
find it very useful, and thank me for it: for you will run on the ground
without tangling.
Now for the Minnow or Penk: he is not easily found and caught till
March, or in April, for then he appears first in the river; nature having
taught him to shelter and hide himself, in the winter, in ditches that be
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: fresh enough they responded in strange ways. He had had much trouble
in discovering the proper formula, for each type of organism was
found to need a stimulus especially adapted to it. Terror stalked
him when he reflected on his partial failures; nameless things
resulting from imperfect solutions or from bodies insufficiently
fresh. A certain number of these failures had remained alive --
one was in an asylum while others had vanished -- and as he thought
of conceivable yet virtually impossible eventualities he often
shivered beneath his usual stolidity.
West had soon learned
that absolute freshness was the prime requisite for useful specimens,
Herbert West: Reanimator |
