| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: silent. I sank wholly to the floor and put a hand to my forehead
amidst the engulfing blackness. What I dreaded and expected was
there. Either I was dreaming, or time and space had become a mockery.
I must be dreaming - but I would test the horror by carrying
this thing back and shewing it to my son if it were indeed a reality.
My head swam frightfully, even though there were no visible objects
in the unbroken gloom to swirl about me. Ideas and images of the
starkest terror - excited by vistas which my glimpse had opened
up - began to throng in upon me and cloud my senses.
I thought
of those possible prints in the dust, and trembled at the sound
Shadow out of Time |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: In the first house where we stopped, when the woman who served
us saw the scar on my forehead, she crossed herself and put
out two fingers towards me, to keep off the evil eye.
I believe they went to the trouble of putting an extra
amount of garlic into our food, and I can't abide garlic.
Ever since then I have taken care not to take off my hat or veil,
and so have escaped their suspicions. We are travelling fast,
and as we have no driver with us to carry tales, we go ahead
of scandal. But I daresay that fear of the evil eye will follow
hard behind us all the way. The Professor seems tireless.
All day he would not take any rest, though he made me sleep
Dracula |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll: And, if I let go, it fails to the floor. But, if we were all falling
together, it couldn't be trying to fall any quicker, you know: for,
if I let go, what more could it do than fall? And, as my hand would be
falling too--at the same rate--it would never leave it, for that
would be to get ahead of it in the race. And it could never overtake
the failing floor!"
"I see it clearly," said Lady Muriel. "But it makes one dizzy to think
of such things! How can you make us do it?"
"There is a more curious idea yet," I ventured to say. "Suppose a cord
fastened to the house, from below, and pulled down by some one on the
planet. Then of course the house goes faster than its natural rate of
Sylvie and Bruno |
