| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: infinite dread. I shunned mirrors as much as possible, and was
always shaved at the barber's.
It was a long time before I correlated
any of these disappointed feelings with the fleeting, visual impressions
which began to develop. The first such correlation had to do with
the odd sensation of an external, artificial restraint on my memory.
I felt that the snatches of sight I experienced had a profound
and terrible meaning, and a frightful connexion with myself, but
that some purposeful influence held me from grasping that meaning
and that connexion. Then came that queerness about the element
of time, and with it desperate efforts to place the fragmentary
Shadow out of Time |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: strange passages and perils, secret disorders, vices more than suspected--
that would have accounted for a good deal more.
I scarce know how to put my story into words that shall be
a credible picture of my state of mind; but I was in these days
literally able to find a joy in the extraordinary flight of
heroism the occasion demanded of me. I now saw that I had been
asked for a service admirable and difficult; and there would
be a greatness in letting it be seen--oh, in the right quarter!--
that I could succeed where many another girl might have failed.
It was an immense help to me--I confess I rather applaud myself
as I look back!--that I saw my service so strongly and so simply.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: "I never skip," said Mrs. Plinth dogmatically.
"Ah, it's dangerous to, in Xingu. Even at the start there are
places where one can't. One must just wade through."
"I should hardly call it WADING," said Mrs. Ballinger
sarcastically.
Mrs. Roby sent her a look of interest. "Ah--you always found it
went swimmingly?"
Mrs. Ballinger hesitated. "Of course there are difficult
passages," she conceded modestly.
"Yes; some are not at all clear--even," Mrs. Roby added, "if one
is familiar with the original."
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