| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: of your race."
"Then we shall perish of heat," said Bickley, "for with every
thousand feet the temperature rises many degrees."
"Not so. You will pass through a zone of heat, but so swiftly
that if you hold your breath you will not suffer overmuch. Then
you will come to a place where a great draught blows which will
keep you cool, and thence travel on to the end."
"Yes, but to what end, Lady Yva?"
"That you will see for yourselves, and with it other wondrous
things."
Here some new idea seemed to strike her, and after a little
When the World Shook |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: surface without a sign of a knob.
I was furiously angry--at myself, at the mantel door, at
everything. I did not fear suffocation; before the thought
had come to me I had already seen a gleam of light from the two
small ventilating pipes in the roof. They supplied air, but
nothing else. The room itself was shrouded in blackness.
I sat down in the stiff-backed chair and tried to remember how
many days one could live without food and water. When that grew
monotonous and rather painful, I got up and, according to the
time-honored rule for people shut in unknown and ink-black
prisons, I felt my way around--it was small enough, goodness
The Circular Staircase |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: was known as the Younger Set; though Travis was too young to come
out, and Rivers too old to feel very much at home with girls of
twenty and boys of eighteen.
They had known each other in the conventional way (as
conventionality goes in San Francisco); during the season Rivers
took her to the theatres Monday nights, and called regularly
Wednesdays and Sundays. Then they met at dances, and managed to
be invited to the same houses for teas and dinners. They had
flirted rather desperately, and at times Condy even told himself
that he loved this girl so much younger than he--this girl with
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