| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Letters of Two Brides by Honore de Balzac: true love, while all the time possessing those qualities most fitted
to inspire it. But if ever he find the ideal woman who has haunted his
waking dreams, if he meet with a nature capable of understanding his
own, one who could fill his soul and pour sunlight over his life,
could shine as a star through the mists of this chill and gloomy
world, lend fresh charm to existence, and draw music from the hitherto
silent chords of his being--needless to say, he would recognize and
welcome his good fortune.
"And she, too, would be happy. Never, by word or look, would he wound
the tender heart which abandoned itself to him, with the blind trust
of a child reposing in its mother's arms. For were the vision
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Droll Stories, V. 1 by Honore de Balzac: "You have not done that which I told you to."
"Saving your Grace I have done it. Turpenay is dead."
"Eh? I meant this monk."
"I understood the gentleman!"
"What, is it done then?"
"Yes, sire,"
"Very well then"--turning towards the monk--"come here, monk." The
monk approached. The king said to him, "Kneel down!" The poor monk
began to shiver in his shoes. But the king said to him, "Thank God
that he has not willed that you should be killed as I had ordered. He
who took your estates has been instead. God has done you justice. Go
Droll Stories, V. 1 |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: had already joined to their abodes and begun to inhabit.
Then
they had sealed the entrances and left them to their fate, afterward
occupying most of their great cities and preserving certain important
buildings for reasons connected more with superstition than with
indifference, boldness, or scientific and historical zeal.
But
as the aeons passed there came vague, evil signs that the elder
things were growing strong and numerous in the inner world. There
were sporadic irruptions of a particularly hideous character in
certain small and remote cities of the Great Race, and in some
Shadow out of Time |
