| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: future bodies - and sometimes forced reëxchanges were effected.
Complex cases of the displacement of exploring or already captive
minds by minds in various regions of the past had been known and
carefully rectified. In every age since the discovery of mind
projection, a minute but well-recognised element of the population
consisted of Great Race minds from past ages, sojourning for a
longer or shorter while.
When a captive mind of alien origin
was returned to its own body in the future, it was purged by an
intricate mechanical hypnosis of all it had learned in the Great
Race's age - this because of certain troublesome consequences
Shadow out of Time |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy: of whom her father had spoken and sung to painfulness:
Kingsbere, the spot of all spots in the world which
could be considered the d'Urbervilles' home, since they
had resided there for full five hundred years. A man
could be seen advancing from the outskirts towards
them, and when he beheld the nature of their
waggon-load he quickened his steps.
"You be the woman they call Mrs Durbeyfield, I reckon?"
he said to Tess's mother, who had descended to walk the
remainder of the way.
She nodded. "Though widow of the late Sir John
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Alcibiades II by Platonic Imitator: SOCRATES: And surely he has a wondrous care for you.
ALCIBIADES: It seems to be altogether advisable to put off the sacrifice
until he is found.
SOCRATES: You are right: that will be safer than running such a
tremendous risk.
ALCIBIADES: But how shall we manage, Socrates?--At any rate I will set
this crown of mine upon your head, as you have given me such excellent
advice, and to the Gods we will offer crowns and perform the other
customary rites when I see that day approaching: nor will it be long
hence, if they so will.
SOCRATES: I accept your gift, and shall be ready and willing to receive
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