| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: this intrusion from the dream-world, I found myself shaking and
bathed in a cold perspiration.
Then, as a last, intolerable
touch, I felt that faint, insidious stream of cool air trickling
upward from a depressed place near the center of the huge heap.
Instantly, as once before, my visions faded, and I saw again only
the evil moonlight, the brooding desert, and the spreading tumulus
of palaeogean masonry. Something real and tangible, yet fraught
with infinite suggestions of nighted mystery, now confronted me.
For that stream of air could argue but one thing - a hidden gulf
of great size beneath the disordered blocks on the surface.
Shadow out of Time |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum: bubble around his chubby little body and smaller bubbles around each
of his Ryls and Knooks.
As the kind and generous friend of children mounted into the air the
people all cheered at the top of their voices, for they loved Santa
Claus dearly; and the little man heard them through the walls of his
bubble and waved his hands in return as he smiled down upon them. The
band played bravely while every one watched the bubble until it was
completely out of sight.
"How 'bout you, Polly?" Dorothy asked her friend. "Are you 'fraid of
bubbles, too?"
"No," answered Polychrome, smiling; "but Santa Claus promised to speak
The Road to Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: Lines longer than 78 characters are broken according to metre,
and the continuation is indented two spaces. Also, some obvious errors
may have been corrected.]
Flame and Shadow
By Sara Teasdale
Author of "Rivers to the Sea", "Love Songs", etc.
To E.
"Recois la flamme ou l'ombre
De tous mes jours."
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