| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The House of Dust by Conrad Aiken: Knew more than archimage,--
Cunningly drew the body, and called the spirit,
Till partly it entered there . . .
Sometimes, at death, it entered the portrait wholly . .
Do all I say with care,
And she you love may come to you when you call her . . . '
So then this ghost, Tokkei,
Ran in the sun, bought wine of a hundred merchants,
And alone at the end of day
Entered the darkening room, and faced the portrait,
And saw the quiet eyes
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad: that I perceived she was one of those creatures that are not
the playthings of Time. For her he had died only yesterday.
And, by Jove! the impression was so powerful that for me, too,
he seemed to have died only yesterday--nay, this very minute.
I saw her and him in the same instant of time--his death and
her sorrow--I saw her sorrow in the very moment of his death.
Do you understand? I saw them together--I heard them together.
She had said, with a deep catch of the breath, `I have survived'
while my strained ears seemed to hear distinctly, mingled with
her tone of despairing regret, the summing up whisper of his
eternal condemnation. I asked myself what I was doing there,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: FIRST GENTLEMAN.
Most strange!
CERIMON.
Shrouded in cloth of state; balm'd and entreasured
With full bags of spices! A passport too!
Apollo, perfect me in the characters!
[Reads from a scroll.]
'Here I give to understand,
If e'er this coffin drive a-land,
I, King Pericles, have lost
This queen, worth all our mundane cost.
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