| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne: We have no more suffocation to fear."
During the night the temperature of the water rose to 1@ below zero.
The injections could not carry it to a higher point. But, as the congelation
of the sea-water produces at least 2@, I was at least reassured against
the dangers of solidification.
The next day, March 27th, six yards of ice had been cleared, twelve feet
only remaining to be cleared away. There was yet forty-eight hours' work.
The air could not be renewed in the interior of the Nautilus.
And this day would make it worse. An intolerable weight oppressed me.
Towards three o'clock in the evening this feeling rose to a violent degree.
Yawns dislocated my jaws. My lungs panted as they inhaled this burning fluid,
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
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 yet I plodded on as if to some eldritch rendezvous - more
and more assailed by bewildering fancies, compulsions, and pseudo-memories.
I thought of some of the possible contours of the lines of stones
as seen by my son from the air, and wondered why they seemed at
once so ominous and so familiar. Something was fumbling and rattling
at the latch of my recollection, while another unknown force sought
to keep the portal barred.
The night was windless, and the pallid
sand curved upward and downward like frozen waves of the sea.
I had no goal, but somehow ploughed along as if with fate-bound
assurance. My dreams welled up into the waking world, so that
Shadow out of Time |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: little wiles were thrown away, the young man staring fixedly at his hat,
she simpered, "Yes," and went away to fetch candles.
In the dining room Em worked at her machine, and Gregory sat close beside
her, his great blue eyes turned to the window where Lyndall leaned out
talking to Waldo.
Tant Sannie took two candles out of the cupboard and held them up
triumphantly, winking all round the room.
"He's asked for them," she said.
"Does he want them for his horse's rubbed back?" asked Gregory, new to up-
country life.
"No," said Tant Sannie, indignantly; "we're going to sit up!" and she
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