| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: something about "waves mountains high." Yes, said Charles Tansley, it
was a little rough. "Aren't you drenched to the skin?" she had said.
"Damp, not wet through," said Mr Tansley, pinching his sleeve, feeling
his socks.
But it was not that they minded, the children said. It was not his face;
it was not his manners. It was him--his point of view. When they talked
about something interesting, people, music, history, anything, even said
it was a fine evening so why not sit out of doors, then what they
complained of about Charles Tansley was that until he had turned the whole
thing round and made it somehow reflect himself and disparage them--he was
not satisfied. And he would go to picture galleries they said, and he
To the Lighthouse |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: us down with those which bear witness.' But they (the Jews) were
crafty, and God was crafty, for God is the best of crafty ones!
When God said, 'O Jesus! I will make Thee die and take Thee up again
to me and will clear thee of those who misbelieve, and will make those
who follow thee above those who misbelieve, at the day of judgment,
then to me is your return. I will decide between you concerning that
wherein ye disagree. And as for those who misbelieve, I will punish
them with grievous punishment in this world and the next, and they
shall have none to help them.' But as for those who believe and do
what is right, He will pay them their reward, for God loves not the
unjust.
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: period and therefore of little use to a scientist seeking very
fresh bodies. The laboratory was in a sub-cellar secretly constructed
by imported workmen, and contained a huge incinerator for the
quiet and complete disposal of such bodies, or fragments and synthetic
mockeries of bodies, as might remain from the morbid experiments
and unhallowed amusements of the owner. During the excavation
of this cellar the workmen had struck some exceedingly ancient
masonry; undoubtedly connected with the old burying-ground, yet
far too deep to correspond with any known sepulchre therein. After
a number of calculations West decided that it represented some
secret chamber beneath the tomb of the Averills, where the last
Herbert West: Reanimator |
