| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne: face, not quick to forebode evil, but unavoidably conscious that
the state of the family had changed since her departure, and
therefore anxious for an explanation.
The artist looked paler than ordinary; there was a thoughtful and
severe contraction of his forehead, tracing a deep, vertical line
between the eyebrows. His smile, however, was full of genuine warmth,
and had in it a joy, by far the most vivid expression that Phoebe had
ever witnessed, shining out of the New England reserve with which
Holgrave habitually masked whatever lay near his heart. It was
the look wherewith a man, brooding alone over some fearful object,
in a dreary forest or illimitable desert, would recognize the
House of Seven Gables |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from God The Invisible King by H. G. Wells: cosmogonies and intellectual pretentiousness of a vanished age.
Modern religion appeals to no revelation, no authoritative teaching,
no mystery. The statement it makes is, it declares, a mere
statement of what we may all perceive and experience. We all live
in the storm of life, we all find our understandings limited by the
Veiled Being; if we seek salvation and search within for God,
presently we find him. All this is in the nature of things. If
every one who perceives and states it were to be instantly killed
and blotted out, presently other people would find their way to the
same conclusions; and so on again and again. To this all true
religion, casting aside its hulls of misconception, must ultimately
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: was about one A.M. that the lights were last seen. At 2.15 A.M.
a policeman observed the place in darkness, but the strager's
motor still at the curb. By 4 o'clock the motor was certainly
gone.
It was at 6 o'clock that a hesitant, foreign voice on
the telephone asked Dr Wilson to call at my house and bring me
out of a peculiar faint. This call - a long-distance one - was
later traced to a public booth in the North Station in Boston,
but no sign of the lean foreigner was ever unearthed.
When the
doctor reached my house he found me unconscious in the sitting
Shadow out of Time |
