| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas: "Something to drink."
"Your excellency knows that wine is beyond all price near
Rome."
"Then give me water," cried Danglars, endeavoring to parry
the blow.
"Oh, water is even more scarce than wine, your excellency,
-- there has been such a drought."
"Come," thought Danglars, "it is the same old story." And
while he smiled as he attempted to regard the affair as a
joke, he felt his temples get moist with perspiration.
"Come, my friend," said Danglars, seeing that he made no
The Count of Monte Cristo |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: In
saying that West’s fear of his specimens was nebulous, I have
in mind particularly its complex nature. Part of it came merely
from knowing of the existence of such nameless monsters, while
another part arose from apprehension of the bodily harm they might
under certain circumstances do him. Their disappearance added
horror to the situation -- of them all, West knew the whereabouts
of only one, the pitiful asylum thing. Then there was a more subtle
fear -- a very fantastic sensation resulting from a curious experiment
in the Canadian army in 1915. West, in the midst of a severe battle,
had reanimated Major Sir Eric Moreland Clapham-Lee, D.S.O., a
Herbert West: Reanimator |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Princess by Alfred Tennyson: Ready to burst and flood the world with foam:
And so she would have spoken, but there rose
A hubbub in the court of half the maids
Gathered together: from the illumined hall
Long lanes of splendour slanted o'er a press
Of snowy shoulders, thick as herded ewes,
And rainbow robes, and gems and gemlike eyes,
And gold and golden heads; they to and fro
Fluctuated, as flowers in storm, some red, some pale,
All open-mouthed, all gazing to the light,
Some crying there was an army in the land,
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