| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: tell your grandchildren you saw the rear guard of the Glorious
Cause in retreat."
Suddenly she hated him, hated him with a strength that momentarily
overpowered her fear, made it seem petty and small. She knew her
safety and that of the others in the back of the wagon depended on
him and him alone, but she hated him for his sneering at those
ragged ranks. She thought of Charles who was dead and Ashley who
might be dead and all the gay and gallant young men who were
rotting in shallow graves and she forgot that she, too, had once
thought them fools. She could not speak, but hatred and disgust
burned in her eyes as she stared at him fiercely.
Gone With the Wind |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Night and Day by Virginia Woolf: of their furniture and decorations. She glanced along a mantelpiece
ranged with bronze chariots, silver vases, and china ornaments that
were either facetious or eccentric.
She did not apply her judgment consciously to Ralph, but when she
looked at him, a moment later, she rated him lower than at any other
time of their acquaintanceship.
He had made no effort to tide over the discomforts of her
introduction, and now, engaged in argument with his brother,
apparently forgot her presence. She must have counted upon his support
more than she realized, for this indifference, emphasized, as it was,
by the insignificant commonplace of his surroundings, awoke her, not
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: had been added to the aesthetic feeling behind the technique -
an alien element, Danforth guessed, that was responsible for the
laborious substitution. It was like, yet disturbingly unlike,
what we had come to recognize as the Old Ones’ art; and I was
persistently reminded of such hybrid things as the ungainly Palmyrene
sculptures fashioned in the Roman manner. That others had recently
noticed this belt of carving was hinted by the presence of a used
flashlight battery on the floor in front of one of the most characteristic
cartouches.
Since we could not afford to spend any considerable
time in study, we resumed our advance after a cursory look; though
At the Mountains of Madness |
