| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Snow Image by Nathaniel Hawthorne: he evidently knew him on the instant, as the youth stood
witnessing the foul disgrace of a head grown gray in honor. They
stared at each other in silence, and Robin's knees shook, and his
hair bristled, with a mixture of pity and terror. Soon, however,
a bewildering excitement began to seize upon his mind; the
preceding adventures of the night, the unexpected appearance of
the crowd, the torches, the confused din and the hush that
followed, the spectre of his kinsman reviled by that great
multitude,--all this, and, more than all, a perception of
tremendous ridicule in the whole scene, affected him with a sort
of mental inebriety. At that moment a voice of sluggish merriment
The Snow Image |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The United States Constitution: within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.
Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the
following Oath or Affirmation:--"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that
I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States,
and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the
Constitution of the United States."
Section 2. The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army
and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States,
when called into the actual Service of the United States;
he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer
in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to
The United States Constitution |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: by the fantastic stalactites of the jagged floor above me.
I
was now close to the great underground archival structure which
seemed to form my goal. Sliding and clambering down the farther
side of the barrier, and picking my way along the remaining stretch
of corridor with hand-held, intermittently flashing torch, I came
at last to a low, circular crypt with arches - still in a marvelous
state of preservation - opening off on every side.
The walls,
or such parts of them as lay within reach of my torchlight, were
densely hieroglyphed and chiselled with typical curvilinear symbols
Shadow out of Time |
