| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Time Machine by H. G. Wells: returned, and almost immediately came another by my ear. I
struck at this, and caught something threadlike. It was drawn
swiftly out of my hand. With a frightful qualm, I turned, and I
saw that I had grasped the antenna of another monster crab that
stood just behind me. Its evil eyes were wriggling on their
stalks, its mouth was all alive with appetite, and its vast
ungainly claws, smeared with an algal slime, were descending upon
me. In a moment my hand was on the lever, and I had placed a
month between myself and these monsters. But I was still on the
same beach, and I saw them distinctly now as soon as I stopped.
Dozens of them seemed to be crawling here and there, in the
The Time Machine |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: A horse was undoubtedly led out of the stable. Breathlessly we
heard it come across the yard, and the next moment we felt rather
than saw it put between the shafts of our brougham.
My companion uttered a stifled cry and set a hand upon the door
handle.
"Sit still, lass," I whispered; "for the love of Heaven, sit
still. He's going to drive us away."
"Oh, lad."
"We are in luck."
"But where are we going?"
"Heaven knows. But away from the bees, any way."
The Brother of Daphne |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Somebody's Little Girl by Martha Young: so long--until she might at last have been forgiven!
So all the little brown crumbs that the tiny little girls did drop,
why the tiny little brown birds did pick up,--and they never said
whether they liked caraway seeds or not!
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One day when the tiny little girls were all in a row eating cakes,
Sister Angela, sitting on a bench under the magnolia, said quite
suddenly: ``Good morning!''
She rose up from her seat under the great magnolia.
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