| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tales and Fantasies by Robert Louis Stevenson: been effected, and the cabman need not pass the garden wall.
It was wonderful how that relieved him; for the house, in his
eyes, was a place to strike the most cursory beholder with
suspicion, as though the very windows had cried murder.
But there was to be no remission of the strokes of fate. As
he thus sat, taking breath in the shadow of the wall and
hopped about by sparrows, it chanced that his eye roved to
the fastening of the door; and what he saw plucked him to his
feet. The thing locked with a spring; once the door was
closed, the bolt shut of itself; and without a key, there was
no means of entering from without.
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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: thanklessly the moment you feel yourself our of
danger."
She had not considered what she had been doing; whether
he were man or woman, stick or stone, in her
involuntary hold on him. Recovering her reserve she sat
without replying, and thus they reached the summit of
another declivity.
"Now then, again!" said d'Urberville.
"No, no!" said Tess. "Show more sense, do, please."
"But when people find themselves on one of the highest
points in the county, they must get down again," he
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: 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
each sand-embedded megalith seemed part of endless rooms and corridors
of pre-human masonry, carved and hieroglyphed with symbols that
I knew too well from years of custom as a captive mind of the
Great Race.
Shadow out of Time |
