The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde: hands and gazing at him with wild startled eyes.
"I see you did. Don't speak. Wait till you hear what I have to say.
Dorian, from the moment I met you, your personality had the most
extraordinary influence over me. I was dominated, soul, brain, and power,
by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen
ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
I worshipped you. I grew jealous of every one to whom you spoke.
I wanted to have you all to myself. I was only happy when I
was with you. When you were away from me, you were still present
in my art.... Of course, I never let you know anything about this.
It would have been impossible. You would not have understood it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy: breast.
At the touch, the sensation of both seemed to be concentrated at
the point of contact. All the time he was performing the delicate
manoeuvre Knight trembled like a young surgeon in his first
operation.
'Now the other,' said Knight in a whisper.
'No, no.'
'Why not?'
'I don't know exactly.'
'You must know.'
'Your touch agitates me so. Let us go home.'
A Pair of Blue Eyes |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: Later, by virtue of its sheer impressiveness, it had found subconscious
expression in dreams, in the bas-relief, and in the terrible statue
I now beheld; so that his imposture upon my uncle had been a very
innocent one. The youth was of a type, at once slightly affected
and slightly ill-mannered, which I could never like, but I was
willing enough now to admit both his genius and his honesty. I
took leave of him amicably, and wish him all the success his talent
promises.
The matter of the cult still remained to fascinate
me, and at times I had visions of personal fame from researches
into its origin and connexions. I visited New Orleans, talked
Call of Cthulhu |