| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: poverty of spirit, and supposed that it was partly that belief (for her
face was all lit up--without looking young, she looked radiant) in this
strange, this terrifying thing, which made Paul Rayley, sitting at her
side, all of a tremor, yet abstract, absorbed, silent. Mrs Ramsay,
Lily felt, as she talked about the skins of vegetables, exalted that,
worshipped that; held her hands over it to warm them, to protect it,
and yet, having brought it all about, somehow laughed, led her victims,
Lily felt, to the altar. It came over her too now--the emotion, the
vibration, of love. How inconspicuous she felt herself by Paul's side!
He, glowing, burning; she, aloof, satirical; he, bound for adventure;
she, moored to the shore; he, ready to implore a share, if it were a
To the Lighthouse |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson: but when the teeth are shut the tongue is at home." And he smiled
to the King that was a priest.
But the elder son got to his feet, and called the King that was a
priest by the name of father. "For whether I marry the maid or no,
I will call you by that word for the love of your wisdom; and even
now I will ride forth and search the world for the stone of touch."
So he said farewell, and rode into the world.
"I think I will go, too," said the younger son, "if I can have your
leave. For my heart goes out to the maid."
"You will ride home with me," said his father.
So they rode home, and when they came to the dun, the King had his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: lapses of visibility, while other fragmentary whispers referred
to their control and military use of great winds. Singular whistling
noises, and colossal footprints made up of five circular toe marks,
seemed also to be associated with them.
It was evident that
the coming doom so desperately feared by the Great Race - the
doom that was one day to send millions of keen minds across the
chasm of time to strange bodies in the safer future - had to do
with a final successful irruption of the elder beings.
Mental
projections down the ages had clearly foretold such a horror,
Shadow out of Time |
