| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from McTeague by Frank Norris: marvel of neatness, from the little red table, with its
three Gorham spoons laid in exact parallels, to the decorous
geraniums and mignonettes growing in the starch box at the
window, underneath the fish globe with its one venerable
gold fish. That day Miss Baker had been doing a bit of
washing; two pocket handkerchiefs, still moist, adhered to
the window panes, drying in the sun.
"Oh, I guess you got something you don't want," Maria went
on, peering into the corners of the room. "Look-a-here what
Mister Grannis gi' me," and she held out the yellow pitcher.
Instantly Miss Baker was in a quiver of confusion. Every
McTeague |
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: huge boatlike atomic-engined vehicles which traversed the great
roads, and to delve freely into the libraries containing the records
of the planet's past and future.
This reconciled many captive
minds to their lot; since none were other than keen, and to such
minds the unveiling of hidden mysteries of earth-closed chapters
of inconceivable pasts and dizzying vortices of future time which
include the years ahead of their own natural ages-forms always,
despite the abysmal horrors often unveiled, the supreme experience
of life.
Now and then certain captives were permitted to meet
Shadow out of Time |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: tough hides. The moonlit snow was green and dazzling. Their
slanting, abbreviated shadows were sharply defined, and red-black in
colour. Maskull, who walked on Sullenbode's right hand, looked
constantly to the left, toward the galaxy of glorious distant peaks.
"You cannot belong to this world," said the woman. "Men of your
stamp are not to be looked for here."
"No, I have come here from Earth."
"Is that larger than our world?"
"Smaller, I think. Small, and overcrowded with men and women. With
all those people, confusion would result but for orderly laws, and
therefore the laws are of iron. As adventure would be impossible
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