| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson: form the manners of children like himself;
observe how every year expands the beauty of his
daughters, and how his sons catch ardour from their
father's history; he will give laws to the neighbourhood;
dictate axioms to posterity; and leave the
world an example of wisdom and happiness.
With hopes like these, he sallies jocund into life;
to little purpose is he told, that the condition of
humanity admits no pure and unmingled happiness;
that the exuberant gaiety of youth ends in poverty
or disease; that uncommon qualifications and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum: behind, stopped abruptly.
"What's the matter?" asked Cap'n Bill.
"Give us a light," was the reply. "I think we've come
to the end of the tunnel." Then, while Cap'n Bill
lighted a candle, the creature added: "If that is true,
we needn't have wakened so soon, for we were almost at
the end of this place when we went to sleep."
The sailor-man and Trot came forward with a light. A
wall of rock really faced the tunnel, but now they saw
that the opening made a sharp turn to the left. So they
followed on, by a narrower passage, and then made
The Scarecrow of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: accomplished by my secondary self, had formed the source of the
whole terrible fabric of pseudomemories.
The period of my dreams,
apparently, was one somewhat less than 150,000,000 years ago,
when the Palaeozoic age was giving place to the Mesozoic. The
bodies occupied by the Great Race represented no surviving - or
even scientifically known-line of terrestrial evolution, but were
of a peculiar, closely homogeneous, and highly specialised organic
type inclining as much as to the vegetable as to the animal state.
Cell action was of an unique sort almost precluding fatigue,
and wholly eliminating the need of sleep. Nourishment, assimilated
Shadow out of Time |
