| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: human beings was suggested - a cult that sometimes gave aid to
minds voyaging down the aeons from the days of the Great Race.
And, meanwhile, the Great Race itself waxed well-nigh omniscient,
and turned to the task of setting up exchanges with the minds
of other planets, and of exploring their pasts and futures. It
sought likewise to fathom the past years and origin of that black,
aeon-dead orb in far space whence its own mental heritage had
come - for the mind of the Great Race was older than its bodily
form.
The beings of a dying elder world, wise with the ultimate
secrets, had looked ahead for a new world and species wherein
Shadow out of Time |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: he found him an interesting character. He had a sort of esteem
for the outward personality and the bearing of that seaman. He
found in him also the distinction of being nothing of a type. He
was a specimen to be judged only by its own worth. With his
natural gift of insight d'Alcacer told himself that many overseas
adventurers of history were probably less worthy because
obviously they must have been less simple. He didn't, however,
impart those thoughts formally to Mrs. Travers. In fact he
avoided discussing Lingard with Mrs. Travers who, he thought, was
quite intelligent enough to appreciate the exact shade of his
attitude. If that shade was fine, Mrs. Travers was fine, too; and
The Rescue |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Coxon Fund by Henry James: was a distinct moment when, without saying anything more definite
to me, Gravener entertained the idea of annexing Mr. Saltram. Such
a project was delusive, for the discovery of analogies between his
body of doctrine and that pressed from headquarters upon
Clockborough--the bottling, in a word, of the air of those lungs
for convenient public uncorking in corn-exchanges--was an
experiment for which no one had the leisure. The only thing would
have been to carry him massively about, paid, caged, clipped; to
turn him on for a particular occasion in a particular channel.
Frank Saltram's channel, however, was essentially not calculable,
and there was no knowing what disastrous floods might have ensued.
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