| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: over lake and river, until thou hast brought us back whence we
came."
Away flew the carpet, and in a little time they were back in the
garden from which they had started upon their journey; and there
they parted company. "Go thy way, young man," said the old
graybeard, "and henceforth try to live more wisely than thou hast
done heretofore. I know well who thou art, and how thou hast
lived. Shun thy evil companions, live soberly, and thou hast
enough to make thee rich for as long as thou livest."
"Have no fear," cried the young man, joyfully. "I have learned a
bitter lesson, and henceforth I will live wisely and well."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: a double one, by the Lord!"
"I'll own to the first, but not to the second.... Pooh--
he won't care! He'll be glad I was wrong in what I said.
He'll shake down, bless 'ee--men always do. What can 'em
do otherwise? Married is married."
Nevertheless it was with a little uneasiness that Arabella
approached the time when in the natural course of things she
would have to reveal that the alarm she had raised had been
without foundation. The occasion was one evening at bedtime,
and they were in their chamber in the lonely cottage by the
wayside to which Jude walked home from his work every day.
Jude the Obscure |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: built them had not needed stairs or inclines.
In the dreams,
the downward aperture had been tightly sealed and nervously guarded.
Now it lay open-black and yawning, and giving forth a current
of cool, damp air. Of what limitless caverns of eternal night
might brood below, I would not permit myself to think.
Later,
clawing my way along a badly heaped section of the corridor, I
reached a place where the roof had wholly caved in. The debris
rose like a mountain, and I climbed up over it, passing through
a vast, empty space where my torchlight could reveal neither walls
Shadow out of Time |
