| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin: With the wild Indians of North America, according to
Mr. Washington Matthews, nodding and shaking the head have
been learnt from Europeans, and are not naturally employed.
They express affirmation by describing with the hand
(all the fingers except the index being flexed) a curve downwards
and outwards from the body, whilst negation is expressed by
moving the open hand outwards, with the palm facing inwards."
Other observers state that the sign of affirmation with these Indians
is the forefinger being raised, and then lowered and pointed
to the ground, or the hand is waved straight forward from the face;
and that the sign of negation is the finger or whole hand
Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: Hill in Arkham, we had felt a brooding menace; and West, though
a calm, blond, blue-eyed scientific automaton in most respects,
often confessed to a shuddering sensation of stealthy pursuit.
He half felt that he was followed -- a psychological delusion
of shaken nerves, enhanced by the undeniably disturbing fact that
at least one of our reanimated specimens was still alive -- a
frightful carnivorous thing in a padded cell at Sefton. Then there
was another -- our first -- whose exact fate we had never learned.
We had fair luck with specimens in Bolton -- much better than
in Arkham. We had not been settled a week before we got an accident
victim on the very night of burial, and made it open its eyes
Herbert West: Reanimator |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: ante-chamber; his turn having come, he entered; Mazarin gave
him a sealed packet. On the envelope of this packet were
these words: -- Monsieur Michel Letellier, etc. Colbert
looked at the packet with much attention; the cardinal put
on a pleasant countenance and pushed him towards the door.
"And the letter of the queen-mother, my lord?" asked
Colbert.
"It is with the rest, in the packet," said Mazarin.
"Oh! very well," replied Colbert, and placing his hat
between his knees, he began to unseal the packet.
Mazarin uttered a cry. "What are you doing?" said he,
Ten Years Later |
