| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: Cell action was of an unique sort almost precluding fatigue,
and wholly eliminating the need of sleep. Nourishment, assimilated
through the red trumpet-like appendages on one of the great flexible
limbs, was always semifluid and in many aspects wholly unlike
the food of existing animals.
The beings had but two of the
senses which we recognise - sight and hearing, the latter accomplished
through the flower-like appendages on the grey stalks above their
heads. Of other and incomprehensible senses - not, however, well
utilizable by alien captive minds inhabiting their bodies - they
possessed many. Their three eyes were so situated as to give them
Shadow out of Time |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mosses From An Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne: feeble and torpid natures, being incapable of better inspiration,
must be stirred up by fear. But here was the crisis. Should she
fail in what she now sought to effect, it was her ruthless
purpose to scatter the miserable simulacre into its original
elements.
"Thou hast a man's aspect," said she, sternly. "Have also the
echo and mockery of a voice! I bid thee speak!"
The scarecrow gasped, struggled, and at length emitted a murmur,
which was so incorporated with its smoky breath that you could
scarcely tell whether it were indeed a voice or only a whiff of
tobacco. Some narrators of this legend hold the opinion that
Mosses From An Old Manse |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: Wanted: a Child's Magna Charta
The Pursuit of Learning
Children and Game: a Proposal
The Parents' Intolerable Burden
Mobilization
Children's Rights and Parents' Wrongs
How Little We Know About Our Parents
Our Abandoned Mothers
Family Affection
The Fate of the Family
Family Mourning
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