| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson: Alack, unwise! that nasal song
Shall be the Ounce's dinner-gong!
A blemish in the cut appears;
Alas! it cost both blood and tears.
The glancing graver swerved aside,
Fast flowed the artist's vital tide!
And now the apologetic bard
Demands indulgence for his pard!
Poem: VI - THE ANGLER AND THE CLOWN
The echoing bridge you here may see,
The pouring lynn, the waving tree,
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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: the high winds which at long intervals sweep across the sands
under a clear sky. Such winds, it is whispered, blow out of the
great stone huts under the ground, where terrible things have
happened - and are never felt except near places where the big
marked stones are scattered. Close to four the gale subsided as
suddenly as it had begun, leaving the sand hills in new and unfamiliar
shapes.
It was just past five, with the bloated, fungoid moon
sinking in the west, when I staggered into camp - hatless, tattered,
features scratched and ensanguined, and without my electric torch.
Most of the men had returned to bed, but Professor Dyer was smoking
Shadow out of Time |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: of sitting there in the stocks, made up for the cunning hostility
of Mr. Buckton and the importunate sympathy of the counter-clerk,
made up for the daily deadly flourishy letter from Mr. Mudge, made
up even for the most haunting of her worries, the rage at moments
of not knowing how her mother did "get it."
She had surrendered herself moreover of late to a certain expansion
of her consciousness; something that seemed perhaps vulgarly
accounted for by the fact that, as the blast of the season roared
louder and the waves of fashion tossed their spray further over the
counter, there were more impressions to be gathered and really--for
it came to that--more life to be led. Definite at any rate it was
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