| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: across the room to where Myles and the bowman sat.
"Give thee good-den," said he. "What be'st thy name and whence
comest thou, an I may make bold so to ask?"
"My name is Myles Falworth," said Myles; "and I come from
Crosbey-Dale bearing a letter to my Lord."
"Never did I hear of Crosbey-Dale," said the squire. "But what
seekest here, if so be I may ask that much?"
"I come seeking service," said Myles, "and would enter as an
esquire such as ye be in my Lord's household."
Myles's new acquaintance grinned. "Thou'lt make a droll squire to
wait in a Lord's household," said he. "Hast ever been in such
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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: all white beneath their golden spires, are loftier still; so that
men on the plain around see them soaring into the sky, sometimes
shining clear, sometimes caught at the top in tangles of cloud
and mist, and sometimes clouded lower down with their utmost pinnacles
blazing free above the vapours. And where Thran's gates open on
the river are great wharves of marble, with ornate galleons of
fragrant cedar and calamander riding gently at anchor, and strange
bearded sailors sitting on casks and bales with the hieroglyphs
of far places. Landward beyond the walls lies the farm country,
where small white cottages dream between little hills, and narrow
roads with many stone bridges wind gracefully among streams and
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde: the whole worked in gold." Catherine de Medicis had a mourning-bed
made for her of black velvet powdered with crescents and suns.
Its curtains were of damask, with leafy wreaths and garlands,
figured upon a gold and silver ground, and fringed along the edges
with broideries of pearls, and it stood in a room hung with rows
of the queen's devices in cut black velvet upon cloth of silver.
Louis XIV had gold embroidered caryatides fifteen feet high
in his apartment. The state bed of Sobieski, King of Poland,
was made of Smyrna gold brocade embroidered in turquoises with verses
from the Koran. Its supports were of silver gilt, beautifully chased,
and profusely set with enamelled and jewelled medallions.
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
