| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: two hours befo' this wrack breaks up and washes off
down the river. See? He'll be drownded, and won't
have nobody to blame for it but his own self. I
reckon that's a considerble sight better 'n killin' of
him. I'm unfavorable to killin' a man as long as you
can git aroun' it; it ain't good sense, it ain't good
morals. Ain't I right?"
"Yes, I reck'n you are. But s'pose she DON'T
break up and wash off?"
"Well, we can wait the two hours anyway and see,
can't we?"
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: all the hard tissues were misty and semi-transparent; through them a
luminous network of blood-red veins and arteries stood out in
startling distinctness. The hard parts faded away to nothingness,
and the blood system alone was left. Not even the fleshy ducts
remained. The naked blood alone was visible, flowing this way and
that like a fiery, liquid skeleton, in the shape of the monster.
Then this blood began to change too. Instead of a continuous liquid
stream, Maskull perceived that it was composed of a million
individual points. The red colour had been an illusion caused by the
rapid motion of the points; he now saw clearly that they resembled
minute suns in their scintillating brightness. They seemed like a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Confessio Amantis by John Gower: Toward the West, and over this
Of Canahim wher the flod is
Into the grete See rennende,
Fro that into the worldes ende
Estward, Asie it is algates,
Til that men come unto the gates 570
Of Paradis, and there ho.
And schortly for to speke it so,
Of Orient in general
Withinne his bounde Asie hath al.
And thanne upon that other syde
Confessio Amantis |
