| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton: consolation."
Ann Eliza was silent, and he bowed and went out. She hastened
back to Evelina's bed, and knelt down beside it. Evelina's eyes
were very large and bright; she turned them on Ann Eliza with a
look of inner illumination.
"I shall see the baby," she said; then her eyelids fell and
she dozed.
The doctor came again at nightfall, administering some last
palliatives; and after he had gone Ann Eliza, refusing to have her
vigil shared by Miss Mellins or Mrs. Hawkins, sat down to keep
watch alone.
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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: very important.
The blackfellows have always been full of talk
about "great stones with marks on them," and seem to have a terrible
fear of such things. They connect them in some way with their
common racial legends about Buddai, the gigantic old man who lies
asleep for ages underground with his head on his arm, and who
will some day awake and eat up the world.
There are some very
old and half-forgotten tales of enormous underground huts of great
stones, where passages lead down and down, and where horrible
things have happened. The blackfellows claim that once some warriors,
Shadow out of Time |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Great though the distance is, the fliers covered it
without a stop. Long before they had reached their
destination Thuvia of Ptarth had learned several things
that cleared up the doubts that had assailed her mind for
many days. Scarce had they risen above Aaanthor than
she recognized one of the crew as a member of the crew
of that other flier that had borne her from her father's
gardens to Aaanthor. The presence of Astok upon the
craft settled the whole question. She had been stolen by
emissaries of the Dusarian prince--Carthoris of Helium
had had nothing to do with it.
Thuvia, Maid of Mars |
