| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Exiles by Honore de Balzac: Dame Tirechair's apprentices, shone like the woodwork of a shrine.
Instead of stools, the lodgers had deep chairs of carved walnut, the
spoils probably of some raided castle. Two chests with pewter
mouldings, and tables on twisted legs, completed the fittings, worthy
of the most fastidious knights-banneret whom business might bring to
Paris.
The windows of those two rooms looked out on the river. From one you
could only see the shores of the Seine, and the three barren islands,
of which two were subsequently joined together to form the Ile Saint-
Louis; the third was the Ile de Louviers. From the other could be
seen, down a vista of the Port-Saint-Landry, the buildings on the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: barrier peaks; yet the prospect of actually entering primordial
walls reared by conscious beings perhaps millions of years ago
- before any known race of men could have existed - was none the
less awesome and potentially terrible in its implications of cosmic
abnormality. Though the thinness of the air at this prodigious
altitude made exertion somewhat more difficult than usual, both
Danforth and I found ourselves bearing up very well, and felt
equal to almost any task which might fall to our lot. It took
only a few steps to bring us to a shapeless ruin worn level with
the snow, while ten or fifteen rods farther on there was a huge,
roofless rampart still complete in its gigantic five-pointed outline
At the Mountains of Madness |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Arizona Nights by Stewart Edward White: personality rather than with her doings.
"What you do with yourself all day to-day?" he occasionally
inquired.
"Oh, there's lots to do," she would answer, a trifle listlessly;
and this reply always seemed quite to satisfy his interest in the
subject.
Senor Johnson, with a curiously instant transformation often to
be observed among the adventurous, settled luxuriously into the
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