| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Arizona Nights by Stewart Edward White:
At last I realised that we ought to pull ourselves together, so I
snubbed up short, and Denton did the same, and we set to laying
plans. But every minute or so one of us would catch on some
word, and then we'd trail off into rhymes and laughter and
repetition.
"Keep him going as long as you can," said Denton.
"Yes."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: and colours speckled the scene in patterns bespeaking some unknown
but well-established horticultural tradition. In the larger gardens
on the ground there seemed to be some attempt to preserve the
irregularities of Nature, but on the roofs there was more selectiveness,
and more evidences of the topiary art.
The sides were almost
always moist and cloudy, and sometimes I would seem to witness
tremendous rains. Once in a while, though, there would be glimpses
of the sun - which looked abnormally large - and of the moon,
whose markings held a touch of difference from the normal that
I could never quite fathom. When - very rarely - the night sky
Shadow out of Time |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville: marches, and namely in that isle, that, for the great distress of
the heat, men's ballocks hang down to their knees for the great
dissolution of the body. And men of that country, that know the
manner, let bind them up, or else might they not live, and anoint
them with ointments made therefore, to hold them up.
In that country and in Ethiopia, and in many other countries, the
folk lie all naked in rivers and waters, men and women together,
from undern of the day till it be past the noon. And they lie all
in the water, save the visage, for the great heat that there is.
And the women have no shame of the men, but lie all together, side
to side, till the heat be past. There may men see many foul figure
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