| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: whistling shrieks behind me were for the moment like a merciful
opiate, dulling my imagination to the horror of the yawning gulf
ahead. And then I became aware of the added blasts and whistling
in front of me - tides of abomination surging up through the cleft
itself from depths unimagined and unimaginable.
Now, indeed,
the essence of pure nightmare was upon me. Sanity departed - and,
ignoring everything except the animal impulse of flight, I merely
struggled and plunged upward over the incline's debris as if no
gulf had existed. Then I saw the chasm's edge, leaped frenziedly
with every ounce of strength I possessed, and was instantly engulfed
Shadow out of Time |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott: set free the streams, and welcomed back the birds; then daily did
the happy child sit among her flowers, longing for the gentle Elf
to come again, that she might tell her gratitude for all the magic
gift had done.
At length, one day, as she sat singing in the sunny nook where
all her fairest flowers bloomed, weary with gazing at the far-off sky
for the little form she hoped would come, she bent to look with joyful
love upon her bosom flower; and as she looked, its folded leaves
spread wide apart, and, rising slowly from the deep white cup,
appeared the smiling face of the lovely Elf whose coming she had
waited for so long.
Flower Fables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: drawing inductions from a hair or a footprint, one of those
somnolent, grinning Hodges will suddenly display activity of
body and finesse of mind. By their names ye may know them,
the women figuring as Loveina, Larsenia, Serena, Leanna,
Orreana; the men answering to Alvin, Alva, or Orion,
pronounced Orrion, with the accent on the first. Whether
they are indeed a race, or whether this is the form of
degeneracy common to all back-woodsmen, they are at least
known by a generic byword, as Poor Whites or Low-downers.
I will not say that the Hanson family was Poor White, because
the name savours of offence; but I may go as far as this -
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