| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: What she had said to him, since I pressed, was that SHE liked to see
young gentlemen not forget their station.
I pressed again, of course, at this. "You reminded him that Quint
was only a base menial?"
"As you might say! And it was his answer, for one thing,
that was bad."
"And for another thing?" I waited. "He repeated your words to Quint?"
"No, not that. It's just what he WOULDN'T!" she could
still impress upon me. "I was sure, at any rate," she added,
"that he didn't. But he denied certain occasions."
"What occasions?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll: made, why don't you make one yourself?'
The little voice sighed deeply: it was VERY unhappy,
evidently, and Alice would have said something pitying to comfort
it, `If it would only sigh like other people!' she thought. But
this was such a wonderfully small sigh, that she wouldn't have
heard it at all, if it hadn't come QUITE close to her ear. The
consequence of this was that it tickled her ear very much, and
quite took off her thoughts from the unhappiness of the poor
little creature.
`I know you are a friend, the little voice went on; `a dear
friend, and an old friend. And you won't hurt me, though I AM an
Through the Looking-Glass |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: almost every case the well-nigh omnipresent sculptures, which
indeed seem to have formed a main aesthetic outlet for the Old
Ones.
About 9:30 P.M., while traversing a long, vaulted corridor
whose increasingly glaciated floor seemed somewhat below the ground
level and whose roof grew lower as we advanced, we began to see
strong daylight ahead and were able to turn off our torch. It
appeared that we were coming to the vast circular place, and that
our distance from the upper air could not be very great. The corridor
ended in an arch surprisingly low for these megalithic ruins,
but we could see much through it even before we emerged. Beyond
At the Mountains of Madness |
