| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Walking by Henry David Thoreau: Where they once dug for money,
But never found any;
Where sometimes Martial Miles
Singly files,
And Elijah Wood,
I fear for no good:
No other man,
Save Elisha Dugan--
O man of wild habits,
Partridges and rabbits
Who hast no cares
Walking |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: He had spoken so far, when Simonides took up the thread of the
discourse, replying: Excellently put. A part I must admit, of what you
say; since war is terrible. Yet, Hiero, you forget. When we, at any
rate, are out campaigning, we have a custom; we place sentinels at the
outposts, and when the watch is set, we take our suppers and turn in
undauntedly.
And Hiero answered: Yes, I can well believe you, for the laws are the
true outposts,[10] who guard the sentinels, keeping their fears alive
both for themselves and in behalf of you. Whereas the tyrant hires his
guards for pay like harvest labourers.[11] Now of all functions, all
abilities, none, I presume, is more required of a guard than that of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: Fred Farr and pointing to the dank, deep hollow that yawned close
by.
'Gawd,' he gasped, 'I telled 'em not ter go daown into the
glen, an' I never thought nobody'd dew it with them tracks an'
that smell an' the whippoorwills a-screechin' daown thar in the
dark o' noonday...'
A cold shudder ran through natives and visitors
alike, and every ear seemed strained in a kind of instinctive,
unconscious listening. Armitage, now that he had actually come
upon the horror and its monstrous work, trembled with the responsibility
he felt to be his. Night would soon fall, and it was then that
The Dunwich Horror |
