| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: elder race of half-polypous, utterly alien entities which had
come through space from immeasurably distant universes and had
dominated the earth and three other solar planets about 600 million
years ago. They were only partly material - as we understand matter
- and their type of consciousness and media of perception differed
widely from those of terrestrial organisms. For example, their
senses did not include that of sight; their mental world being
a strange, non-visual pattern of impressions.
They were, however,
sufficiently material to use implements of normal matter when
in cosmic areas containing it; and they required housing - albeit
Shadow out of Time |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ruling Passion by Henry van Dyke: regret followed.
"Is it possible that she has gone away, without a word, without a
sign, after what has passed between us? It is not fair. Surely I
had some claim."
"But what claim, after all? I asked for nothing. And was it not
pride that kept me silent, taking it for granted that if I asked,
she would give?"
"It was a mistake; she did not understand, nor care."
"It was my fault; I might at least have told her that I loved her,
though she could not have answered me."
"It is too late now. To-night, while I was finishing the picture, I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rezanov by Gertrude Atherton: and in addition to these great streams there were
many too unimportant for the map, but as erratic
in course and as irresistible in energy after the first
rains of autumn.
Captain D'Wolf had proved himself capable and
faithful, and a caravan of forty horses had been in
Okhotsk a week; twenty for immediate use, twenty
for relief, or substitutes in almost certain emer-
gency. As there were but one or two stations of
any importance between Okhotsk and Yakutsk, and
as a week might pass without the shelter of so much
Rezanov |
