| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: its supporting member at the level of the cone top, although it
was frequently raised or lowered.
The other three great members
tended to rest downward at the sides of the cone, contracted to
about five feet each when not in use. From their rate of reading,
writing, and operating their machines - those on the tables seemed
somehow connected with thought - I concluded that their intelligence
was enormously greater than man's.
Aftenvard I saw them everywhere;
swarming in all the great chambers and corridors, tending monstrous
machines in vaulted crypts, and racing along the vast roads in
Shadow out of Time |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Egmont by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: even then my heart was filled with grief and anguish to behold thee thus.
Thy doom is real! Is certain! No, I cannot command myself. Who will
counsel, who will aid me, to meet the inevitable?
Egmont. Hearken then to me! If thy heart is impelled so powerfully in my
favour, if thou dost abhor the tyranny that holds me fettered, then deliver
me! The moments are precious. Thou art the son of the all-powerful, and
thou hast power thyself. Let us fly! I know the roads; the means of
effecting our escape cannot be unknown to thee. These walls, a few short
miles, alone separate me from my friends. Loose these fetters, conduct me
to them; be ours. The king, on some future day, will doubtless thank my
deliverer. Now he is taken by surprise, or perchance he is ignorant of the
Egmont |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: and as they were thus disqualified for foresters, Robin had found them
a retreat in this romantic and secluded spot. He had done similar
service to other lovers similarly circumstanced, and had disposed them
in various wild scenes which he and his men had discovered in their
flittings from place to place, supplying them with all necessaries
and comforts from the reluctant disgorgings of fat abbots and usurers.
The benefit was in some measure mutual; for these cottages served him
as resting-places in his removals, and enabled him to travel untraced
and unmolested; and in the delight with which he was always received
he found himself even more welcome than he would have been at an inn;
and this is saying very much for gratitude and affection together.
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