| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "It is not the sun of the outer world that we see here.
It is another sun--an entirely different sun--that
casts its eternal noonday effulgence upon the face
of the inner world. Look at it now, David--if you can
see it from the doorway of this hut--and you will see
that it is still in the exact center of the heavens.
We have been here for many hours--yet it is still noon.
"And withal it is very simple, David. The earth was once
a nebulous mass. It cooled, and as it cooled it shrank.
At length a thin crust of solid matter formed upon
its outer surface--a sort of shell; but within it was
At the Earth's Core |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen: be said or done in the matter; you evidently think there is a
mystery of some kind, but Herbert is dead; where then do you
propose to look?"
"I propose to look for the woman; the woman whom he
married. She is the mystery."
The two men sat silent by the fireside; Clarke secretly
congratulating himself on having successfully kept up the
character of advocate of the commonplace, and Villiers wrapped
in his gloomy fancies.
"I think I will have a cigarette," he said at last, and
put his hand in his pocket to feel for the cigarette-case.
The Great God Pan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: in wavering breaths over the houses, and these slowly thickened,
until they were as round and straight as columns, and instead of
striking upon pale white blinds, the sun shone upon dark windows,
beyond which there was depth and space.
The sun had been up for many hours, and the great dome of air was
warmed through and glittering with thin gold threads of sunlight,
before any one moved in the hotel. White and massive it stood
in the early light, half asleep with its blinds down.
At about half-past nine Miss Allan came very slowly into the hall,
and walked very slowly to the table where the morning papers
were laid, but she did not put out her hand to take one; she stood
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