| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: and dingy. Now I saw that he was superb.
"I was glad at first, with a merely aesthetic satisfaction: glad
to have my hand on such a 'subject.' Then his strange life-
likeness began to affect me queerly--as I blocked the head in I
felt as if he were watching me do it. The sensation was followed
by the thought: if he WERE watching me, what would he say to my
way of working? My strokes began to go a little wild--I felt
nervous and uncertain.
"Once, when I looked up, I seemed to see a smile behind his close
grayish beard--as if he had the secret, and were amusing himself
by holding it back from me. That exasperated me still more. The
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: that only black Magick can discover, and only the Divell unlock".
Mr. Hoadley disappeared soon after delivering this sermon, but
the text, printed in Springfield, is still extant. Noises in the
hills continued to be reported from year to year, and still form
a puzzle to geologists and physiographers.
Other traditions
tell of foul odours near the hill-crowning circles of stone pillars,
and of rushing airy presences to be heard faintly at certain hours
from stated points at the bottom of the great ravines; while still
others try to explain the Devil's Hop Yard - a bleak, blasted
hillside where no tree, shrub, or grass-blade will grow. Then,
The Dunwich Horror |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Aesop's Fables by Aesop: give it up, and walked away with his nose in the air, saying: "I
am sure they are sour."
It is easy to despise what you cannot get.
The Horse, Hunter, and Stag
A quarrel had arisen between the Horse and the Stag, so the
Horse came to a Hunter to ask his help to take revenge on the
Stag. The Hunter agreed, but said: "If you desire to conquer the
Stag, you must permit me to place this piece of iron between your
jaws, so that I may guide you with these reins, and allow this
saddle to be placed upon your back so that I may keep steady upon
you as we follow after the enemy." The Horse agreed to the
Aesop's Fables |
