| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed by Edna Ferber: low room as Alma Pflugel showed me her treasures. The
cat purred in great content, and the stove cast a rosy
glow over the scene as the simple woman told the story of
each precious relic, from the battered candle-dipper on
the shelf, to the great mahogany folding table, and
sewing stand, and carved bed. Then there was the old
horn lantern that Jacob Pflugel had used a century
before, and in one corner of the sitting-room stood
Grossmutter Pflugel's spinning-wheel. Behind cupboard
doors were ranged the carefully preserved blue-and-white
china dishes, and on the shelf below stood the clumsy
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: My head swam frightfully, even though there were no visible objects
in the unbroken gloom to swirl about me. Ideas and images of the
starkest terror - excited by vistas which my glimpse had opened
up - began to throng in upon me and cloud my senses.
I thought
of those possible prints in the dust, and trembled at the sound
of my own breathing as I did so. Once again I flashed on the light
and looked at the page as a serpent's victim may look at his destroyer's
eyes and fangs.
Then, with clumsy fingers, in the dark, I closed
the book, put it in its container, and snapped the lid and the
Shadow out of Time |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: father and spares the son. He is dead and I am glad that I killed
him, though he haunts me now with the others.'
'And shall haunt you eternally. Now let us make an end. You have
your sword, use it if you can. It will be easier to die fighting.'
'I cannot,' he groaned; 'my doom is upon me.'
'As you will,' and I came at him, sword up.
He ran from before me, moving backwards and keeping his eyes fixed
upon mine, as I have seen a rat do when a snake is about to swallow
it. Now we were upon the edge of the crater, and looking over I
saw an awful sight. For there, some thirty feet beneath us, the
red-hot lava glowing sullenly beneath a shifting pall of smoke,
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