| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: brown to their green stage. Yeobright walked to the edge
of the basin which extended down from Mistover and Rainbarrow.
By this time he was calm, and he looked over the landscape.
In the minor valleys, between the hillocks which
diversified the contour of the vale, the fresh young
ferns were luxuriantly growing up, ultimately to reach
a height of five or six feet. He descended a little way,
flung himself down in a spot where a path emerged from one
of the small hollows, and waited. Hither it was that he
had promised Eustacia to bring his mother this afternoon,
that they might meet and be friends. His attempt had utterly failed.
Return of the Native |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: shall have to learn all the angles of the planes and all the formulas
between the Yr and the Nhhngr. They from outside will help, but
they cannot take body without human blood. That upstairs looks
it will have the right cast. I can see it a little when I make
the Voorish sign or blow the powder of Ibn Ghazi at it, and it
is near like them at May Eve on the Hill. The other face may wear
off some. I wonder how I shall look when the earth is cleared
and there are no earth beings on it. He that came with the Aklo
Sabaoth said I may be transfigured there being much of outside
to work on.
Morning found Dr Armitage in a cold sweat of terror
The Dunwich Horror |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death by Patrick Henry: to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery!
Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston!
The war is inevitable--and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--
but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps
from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms!
Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle?
What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear,
or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take;
but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
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