| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Exiles by Honore de Balzac: tokens by which to recognize them.
He next strove to drag from the very depths of man's understanding the
real sense of the word fall, which occurs in every language. He
appealed to the most widely-spread traditions in evidence of this one
true origin, explaining, with much lucidity, the passion all men have
for rising, mounting--an instinctive ambition, the perennial
revelations of our destiny.
He displayed the whole universe at a glance, and described the nature
of God Himself circulating in a full tide from the centre to the
extremities, and from the extremities to the centre again. Nature was
one and homogeneous. In the most seemingly trivial, as in the most
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: quickly instituted a prodigiously far-flung body of inquires amongst
nearly all the friends whom he could question without impertinence,
asking for nightly reports of their dreams, and the dates of any
notable visions for some time past. The reception of his request
seems to have varied; but he must, at the very least, have received
more responses than any ordinary man could have handled without
a secretary. This original correspondence was not preserved, but
his notes formed a thorough and really significant digest. Average
people in society and business - New England's traditional "salt
of the earth" - gave an almost completely negative result, though
scattered cases of uneasy but formless nocturnal impressions appear
Call of Cthulhu |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: and she would lift her chin and walk silently away.
If we ran after her and tried to appease her, it did no good.
She walked on unmollified. I used to think that no eyes
in the world could grow so large or hold so many tears as
Nina's. Mrs. Harling and Antonia invariably took her part.
We were never given a chance to explain. The charge was simply:
`You have made Nina cry. Now, Jimmy can go home, and Sally
must get her arithmetic.' I liked Nina, too; she was so quaint
and unexpected, and her eyes were lovely; but I often wanted
to shake her.
We had jolly evenings at the Harlings' when the father was away.
My Antonia |
