The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum: the populace:
"Here is the terrible sorcerer Kwytoffle, who threatened to change you
into grasshoppers and june-bugs. But you may see that he is a very
common man, with no powers of sorcery whatever!"
And then the people would laugh and pelt mud at their former tyrant,
and thank Prince Marvel for haying exposed the false and wicked creature.
And they called the son of their old king back to his lawful throne,
where he ruled wisely and well; and the hoarded wealth of Kwytoffle
was divided among the people again, and soon the country became
prosperous once more.
This adventure was very amusing to the pretty High Ki of Twi. It
The Enchanted Island of Yew |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll: They returned hand-in-hand, and the Bellman, unmanned
(For a moment) with noble emotion,
Said "This amply repays all the wearisome days
We have spent on the billowy ocean!"
Such friends, as the Beaver and Butcher became,
Have seldom if ever been known;
In winter or summer, 'twas always the same--
You could never meet either alone.
And when quarrels arose--as one frequently finds
Quarrels will, spite of every endeavor--
The song of the Jubjub recurred to their minds,
The Hunting of the Snark |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: floundered in steaming morasses, fluttered in the heavy air, or
spouted in the seas and lakes; and among these I fancied I could
vaguely recognise lesser, archaic prototypes of many forms - dinosaurs,
pterodactyls, ichthyosaurs, labyrinthodonts, plesiosaurs, and
the like-made familiar through palaeontology. Of birds or mammals
there were none that I could discover.
The ground and swamps
were constantly alive with snakes, lizards, and crocodiles while
insects buzzed incessantly among the lush vegetation. And far
out at sea, unspied and unknown monsters spouted mountainous columns
of foam into the vaporous sky. Once I was taken under the ocean
Shadow out of Time |