| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe: and you will hear, though Marie does not.
"Dear Mammy, I know your head is aching dreadfully."
"Lord bless you, Miss Eva! my head allers aches lately.
You don't need to worry."
"Well, I'm glad you're going out; and here,"--and the little
girl threw her arms around her,--"Mammy, you shall take my
vinaigrette."
"What! your beautiful gold thing, thar, with them diamonds!
Lor, Miss, 't wouldn't be proper, no ways."
"Why not? You need it, and I don't. Mamma always uses it
for headache, and it'll make you feel better. No, you shall take
Uncle Tom's Cabin |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy: of an elm on the opposite side of the way.
Travellers -- for the variety TOURIST had hardly
developed into a distinct species at this date -- some-
times said in passing, when they cast their eyes up to
the sign-bearing tree, that artists were fond of repre-
senting the signboard hanging thus, but that they
themselves had never before noticed so perfect an
instance in actual working order. It was near this tree
that the waggon was standing into which Gabriel Oak
crept on his first journey to Weatherbury; but, owing
to the darkness, the sign and the inn had been un-
Far From the Madding Crowd |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: twilight place; and this sailor said there was certainly a descent
to the north of the peopled region, which everybody seemed to
fear and shun. The Thorabonian opined that this desert led around
the utmost rim of impassable peaks into Leng's horrible plateau,
and that this was why men feared it; though he admitted there
were other vague tales of evil presences and nameless sentinels.
Whether or not this could be the fabled waste wherein unknown
Kadath stands he did not know; but it seemed unlikely that those
presences and sentinels, if indeed they existed, were stationed
for nought.
On the following day Carter walked up the Street
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
