| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe: acknowledge how familiar was all this--I still wondered to find
how unfamiliar were the fancies which ordinary images were
stirring up. On one of the staircases, I met the physician of
the family. His countenance, I thought, wore a mingled
expression of low cunning and perplexity. He accosted me with
trepidation and passed on. The valet now threw open a door and
ushered me into the presence of his master.
The room in which I found myself was very large and lofty.
The windows were long, narrow, and pointed, and at so vast a dis-
tance from the black oaken floor as to be altogether inaccessible
from within. Feeble gleams of encrimsoned light made their way
The Fall of the House of Usher |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: barn for a horse and some sort of a vehicle to take us to the
trolley, and that she had refused to allow me to look. I remembered
many things later that might have helped me, and did not. At the
time, I was only completely bewildered. Save the wreck, the
responsibility for which lay between Providence and the engineer of
the second section, all the events of that strange morning were
logically connected; they came from one cause, and tended unerringly
to one end. But the cause was buried, the end not yet in view.
Not until we had left the house well behind did the girl's face
relax its tense lines. I was watching her more closely than I had
realized, for when we had gone a little way along the road she turned
The Man in Lower Ten |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from God The Invisible King by H. G. Wells: delicate and attractive expression in the devotional poetry of
Rabindranath Tagore--has long since abandoned this anthropomorphic
insistence upon a body. From the earliest ages man's mind has found
little or no difficulty in the idea of something essential to the
personality, a soul or a spirit or both, existing apart from the
body and continuing after the destruction of the body, and being
still a person and an individual. From this it is a small step to
the thought of a person existing independently of any existing or
pre-existing body. That is the idea of theological Christianity, as
distinguished from the Christianity of simple faith. The Triune
Persons--omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent--exist for all
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