| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac: wasted fortunes.
"Now do you suppose," said Joseph to his mother, "that my brother is
such a fool as to spend his money on Mariette? Such women only ruin
rich men."
"They talk of engaging Mariette at the Opera," said Bixiou. "Don't be
worried, Madame Bridau; the diplomatic body often comes to the Porte-
Saint-Martin, and that handsome girl won't stay long with your son. I
did hear that an ambassador was madly in love with her. By the bye,
another piece of news! Old Claparon is dead, and his son, who has
become a banker, has ordered the cheapest kind of funeral for him.
That fellow has no education; they wouldn't behave like that in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: however, was alarmingly otherwise. It consisted of certain curvilinear
hieroglyphs in the same ink as that of the German corrections,
but following no recognized human pattern. And these hieroglyphs
were closely and unmistakably aldn to the characters constantly
met with in my dreams - characters whose meaning I would sometimes
momentarily fancy I knew, or was just on the brink of recalling.
To complete my black confusion, my librarians assured me that,
in view of previous examinations and records of consultation of
the volumes in question, all of these notations must have been
made by myself in my secondary state. This despite the fact that
I was and still am ignorant of three of the languages involved.
Shadow out of Time |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: "That is not much; they cannot say I take much," he said, looking at it.
He put his knotted stick beside it, his blue tobacco bag and his short
pipe, and then inspected his coats. He had two left--a moth-eaten overcoat
and a black alpaca, out at the elbows. He decided for the overcoat; it was
warm, certainly, but then he could carry it over his arm and only put it on
when he met some one along the road. It was more respectable than the
black alpaca.
He hung the greatcoat over the back of the chair, and stuffed a hard bit of
roaster-cake under the knot of the bundle, and then his preparations were
completed. The German stood contemplating them with much satisfaction. He
had almost forgotten his sorrow at leaving in his pleasure at preparing.
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