| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: I made, I clattered over a great barrier of blocks and was again
in the structure that led to the surface.
I recall glimpsing
the archway to the room of machines and almost crying out as I
saw the incline leading down to where one of those blasphemous
trap-doors must be yawning two levels below. But instead of crying
out I muttered over and over to myself that this was all a dream
from which I must soon awake. Perhaps I was in camp - perhaps
I was at home in Arkham. As these hopes bolstered up my sanity
I began to mount the incline to the higher level.
I knew, of
Shadow out of Time |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs: more and the living members of the ill-starred company
carried below to their hammocks.
The dead were wrapped in tarpaulins and lashed on deck
to be identified by their comrades before being consigned to
the deep.
None of the living was conscious when the Frenchmen
reached the Arrow's deck. Even the poor devil who had
waved the single despairing signal of distress had lapsed into
unconsciousness before he had learned whether it had availed
or not.
It did not take the French officer long to learn what had
Tarzan of the Apes |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Study of a Woman by Honore de Balzac: Beauseant's, where Rastignac would probably betake himself. It was
Saturday. The Marquis de Beauseant was in some way a connection of
Monsieur de Rastignac, and the young man was not likely to miss
coming. By two in the morning Madame de Listomere, who had gone there
solely for the purpose of crushing Eugene by her coldness, discovered
that she was waiting in vain. A brilliant man--Stendhal--has given the
fantastic name of "crystallization" to the process which Madame de
Listomere's thoughts went through before, during, and after this
evening.
Four days later Eugene was scolding his valet.
"Ah ca! Joseph; I shall soon have to send you away, my lad."
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