| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from When a Man Marries by Mary Roberts Rinehart: them.
To go back to the anniversary, I went to Rothberg's to see the
collection of antique furniture--mother was looking for a
sideboard for father's birthday in March--and I met Jimmy there,
boring into a worm-hole in a seventeenth-century bedpost with the
end of a match, and looking his nearest to sad. When he saw me
he came over.
"I'm blue today, Kit," he said, after we had shaken hands. "Come
and help me dig bait, and then let's go fishing. If there's a
worm in every hole in that bedpost, we could go into the fish
business. It's a good business."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hamlet by William Shakespeare: More then in words?
Laer. To cut his throat i'th' Church
Kin. No place indeed should murder Sancturize;
Reuenge should haue no bounds: but good Laertes
Will you doe this, keepe close within your Chamber,
Hamlet return'd, shall know you are come home:
Wee'l put on those shall praise your excellence,
And set a double varnish on the fame
The Frenchman gaue you, bring you in fine together,
And wager on your heads, he being remisse,
Most generous, and free from all contriuing,
Hamlet |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: 1 (March 1936), p. 125-55; Vol. 17, No. 2 (April 1936), p. 132-50.
I
I am forced into speech because men of science have refused
to follow my advice without knowing why. It is altogether against
my will that I tell my reasons for opposing this contemplated
invasion of the antarctic - with its vast fossil hunt and its
wholesale boring and melting of the ancient ice caps. And I am
the more reluctant because my warning may be in vain.
Doubt
of the real facts, as I must reveal them, is inevitable; yet,
if I suppressed what will seem extravagant and incredible, there
At the Mountains of Madness |
