| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs: saying he approached one of the doors that opened onto the
skull-paved shelf.
They found the corridor easily, for it paralleled the river,
separated from it only by a single wall. It took them beneath the
gardens and the city, always through inky darkness. After they
had reached the other side of the gardens, Bradley counted his
steps until he had retraced as many as he had taken coming down
the stream; but though they had to grope their way along, it was
a much more rapid trip than the former.
When he thought he was about opposite the point at which he had
descended from the Blue Place of Seven Skulls, he sought and
Out of Time's Abyss |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: thinking of it. It makes me want to run--when I haven't Dick on
my back."
"But it is not here," said the camel and the bullocks. "Why
are you so stupid?"
"It's vile stuff," said Billy. "I don't want to run, but I
don't want to talk about it."
"There you are!" said Two Tails, waving his tail to explain.
"Surely. Yes, we have been here all night," said the
bullocks.
Two Tails stamped his foot till the iron ring on it jingled.
"Oh, I'm not talking to you. You can't see inside your heads."
The Jungle Book |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: page after page with shaking hands as fast as he could decipher
the cryptic text. He had nervously telephoned his wife he would
not be home, and when she brought him a breakfast from the house
he could scarcely dispose of a mouthful. All that day he read
on, now and then halted maddeningly as a reapplication of the
complex key became necessary. Lunch and dinner were brought him,
but he ate only the smallest fraction of either. Toward the middle
of the next night he drowsed off in his chair, but soon woke out
of a tangle of nightmares almost as hideous as the truths and
menaces to man's existence that he had uncovered.
On the morning
The Dunwich Horror |
