| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: to dew.'
That Hallowe'en the hill noises sounded louder than
ever, and fire burned on Sentinel Hill as usual; but people paid
more attention to the rhythmical screaming of vast flocks of unnaturally
belated whippoorwills which seemed to be assembled near the unlighted
Whateley farmhouse. After midnight their shrill notes burst into
a kind of pandemoniac cachinnation which filled all the countryside,
and not until dawn did they finally quiet down. Then they vanished,
hurrying southward where they were fully a month overdue. What
this meant, no one could quite be certain till later. None of
the countryfolk seemed to have died - but poor Lavinia Whateley,
The Dunwich Horror |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: that mine eyes beheld this land.'
Then Odysseus, of the seed of Zeus, answered him saying:
'Eumaeus, verily thou hast stirred my heart within me with
the tale of all these things, of all the sorrow of heart
thou hast endured. Yet surely Zeus hath given thee good as
well as evil, since after all these adventures thou hast
come to the house of a kindly man, who is careful to give
thee meat and drink and right well thou livest. But I have
come hither still wandering through the many towns of men.'
Thus they spake one with the other. Then they laid them
down to sleep for no long while, but for a little space,
The Odyssey |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Agesilaus by Xenophon: his fellow-Hellenes, yet we must fare far afield to find another
instance of a general who, expecting to sack some city, would have
refused to seize the prize; or who regarded victory in a war waged
against fellow-Hellenes as a species of calamity. Yet this man when a
message was brought him concerning the battle at Corinth,[8] in which
but eight Lacedaemonians had fallen, but of their opponents ten
thousand nearly, showed no sign of exultation, but sighed, saying,
"Alas for Hellas! since those who now lie in their graves, were able,
had they lived, to conquer the hosts of Asia."[9] Again, when some
Corinthian exiles informed him that their city was ripe for surrender,
and showed him the engines by which they were confident they would
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