| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Second Home by Honore de Balzac: young man who was arrested in the house of a friend of mine, whom he
had robbed to a considerable extent, appealed to you.--He says he is
your son."
"His name?" asked the Count hoarsely.
"Charles Crochard."
"That will do," said the father, with an imperious wave of the hand.
Granville paced the room in solemn silence, and his son took care not
to break it.
"My son," he began, and the words were pronounced in a voice so mild
and fatherly, that the young lawyer started, "Charles Crochard spoke
the truth.--I am glad you came to me to-night, my good Eugene," he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: but in the earlier visions I could not resolve this impression
into details.
In certain places I beheld enormous dark cylindrical
towers which climbed far above any of the other structures. These
appeared to be of a totally unique nature and shewed signs of
prodigious age and dilapidation. They were built of a bizarre
type of square-cut basalt masonry, and tapered slightly toward
their rounded tops. Nowhere in any of them could the least traces
of windows or other apertures save huge doors be found. I noticed
also some lower buildinigs - all crumbling with the weathering
of aeons - which resembled these dark, cylindrical towers in basic
Shadow out of Time |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: of athletic sports and country walks for those whose business
compels them to pass the day in the heart of the city; I press on
you, with my whole soul, the excellency of the early-closing
movement; not so much because it enables young men to attend
mechanics' institutes, as because it enables them, if they choose,
to get a good game of leap-frog. You may smile; but try the
experiment, and see how, as the chest expands, the muscles harden,
and the cheek grows ruddy and the lips firm, and sound sleep
refreshes the lad for his next day's work, the temper will become
more patient, the spirits more genial; there will be less tendency
to brood angrily over the inequalities of fortune, and to accuse
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