| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw: eyes on him.
MRS TARLETON. Oh, Bunny! For shame!
BENTLEY. Well, who'd marry me, dyou suppose, if they could get my
brains with a full-sized body? No, thank you. I shall take jolly
good care to keep Joey out of this until Hypatia is past praying for.
_Johnny and Lord Summerhays return through the pavilion from their
stroll._
TARLETON. Welcome! welcome! Why have you stayed away so long?
LORD SUMMERHAYS. _[shaking hands]_ Yes: I should have come sooner.
But I'm still rather lost in England. _[Johnny takes his hat and
hangs it up beside his own]._ Thank you. _[Johnny returns to his
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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: as a natural thing.
They noticed that my chief efforts were
to master certain points in history, science, art, language, and
folklore - some of them tremendously abstruse, and some childishly
simple - which remained, very oddly in many cases, outside my
consciousness.
At the same time they noticed that I had an inexplicable
command of many almost unknown sorts of knowledge - a command
which I seemed to wish to hide rather than display. I would inadvertently
refer, with casual assurance, to specific events in dim ages outside
of the range of accepted history - passing off such references
Shadow out of Time |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain: with his head over his shoulder and his voice pro-
claiming his unappeasable happiness. Then he went
tearing around the house again spreading chaos and
destruction in his path. Aunt Polly entered in time
to see him throw a few double summersets, deliver a
final mighty hurrah, and sail through the open window,
carrying the rest of the flower-pots with him. The
old lady stood petrified with astonishment, peering
over her glasses; Tom lay on the floor expiring with
laughter.
"Tom, what on earth ails that cat?"
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
