| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather: telling where you were, and I thought I had
to see you. That's all. Good-night; I'm going now."
She turned and her hand closed on the door-knob.
Alexander hurried toward her and took
her gently by the arm. "Sit down, Hilda;
you're wet through. Let me take off your coat
--and your boots; they're oozing water."
He knelt down and began to unlace her shoes,
while Hilda shrank into the chair. "Here, put
your feet on this stool. You don't mean to say
you walked down--and without overshoes!"
Alexander's Bridge |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: flowering trees espaliered to golden lattices, the brazen urns
and tripods with cunning bas-reliefs, the pedestalled and almost
breathing statues of veined black marble, the basalt-bottomed
lagoon's tiled fountains with luminous fish, the tiny temples
of iridescent singing birds atop carven columns, the marvellous
scrollwork of the great bronze gates, and the blossoming vines
trained along every inch of the polished walls all joined to form
a sight whose loveliness was beyond reality, and half-fabulous
even in the land of dreams. There it shimmered like a vision under
that grey twilight sky, with the domed and fretted magnificence
of the palace ahead, and the fantastic silhouette of the distant
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from From London to Land's End by Daniel Defoe: writing.
This county, and this part of it in particular, has been famous for
the birth of several eminent men as well for learning as for arts
and for war, as particularly:-
1. Sir William Petre, who the learned Dr. Wake (now Archbishop of
Canterbury, and author of the Additions to Mr. Camden) says was
Secretary of State and Privy Councillor to King Henry VIII., Edward
VI., Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, and seven times sent
ambassador into foreign countries.
2. Sir Thomas Bodley, famous and of grateful memory to all learned
men and lovers of letters for his collecting and establishing the
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