| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: and the evil moon and the shards of an unguessed past. I drew
close and paused, and cast the added light of my electric torch
over the tumbled pile. A hillock had blown away, leaving a low,
irregularly round mass of megaliths and smaller fragments some
forty feet across and from two to eight feet high.
From the
very outset I realized that there was some utterly unprecedented
quality about those stones. Not only was the mere number of them
quite without parallel, but something in the sandworn traces of
design arrested me as I scanned them under the mingled beams of
the moon and my torch.
Shadow out of Time |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas: instant to Haarlem with it?
It was not possible that a young girl should undertake such
a journey alone during the night.
Was she only going to show the tulip to Cornelius? This was
more likely.
He followed Rosa in his stocking feet, walking on tiptoe.
He saw her approach the grated window. He heard her calling
Cornelius. By the light of the dark lantern he saw the tulip
open, and black as the night in which he was hidden.
He heard the plan concerted between Cornelius and Rosa to
send a messenger to Haarlem. He saw the lips of the lovers
The Black Tulip |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: respected no man in the whole world, neither rich nor poor, who
came near them, who came near them, and they have come to a bad
end in consequence of their iniquity; Ulysses is dead far away
from the Achaean land; he will never return home again."
Then nurse Euryclea said, "My child, what are you talking about?
but you were all hard of belief and have made up your mind that
your husband is never coming, although he is in the house and by
his own fire side at this very moment. Besides I can give you
another proof; when I was washing him I perceived the scar which
the wild boar gave him, and I wanted to tell you about it, but
in his wisdom he would not let me, and clapped his hands over my
The Odyssey |
