| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Animal Farm by George Orwell: already threshed, a flight of pigeons came whirling through the air and
alighted in the yard of Animal Farm in the wildest excitement. Jones and
all his men, with half a dozen others from Foxwood and Pinchfield, had
entered the five-barred gate and were coming up the cart-track that led to
the farm. They were all carrying sticks, except Jones, who was marching
ahead with a gun in his hands. Obviously they were going to attempt the
recapture of the farm.
This had long been expected, and all preparations had been made. Snowball,
who had studied an old book of Julius Caesar's campaigns which he had
found in the farmhouse, was in charge of the defensive operations. He gave
his orders quickly, and in a couple of minutes every animal was at his
Animal Farm |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Arizona Nights by Stewart Edward White: Yours truly,
Henry Smith
Somebody showed me a handful of white rock with yeller streaks in
it. His eyes was bulgin' until you could have hung your hat on
them. That O'Toole party was walkin' around, wettin' his lips
with his tongue and swearin' soft.
"God bless the Irish and let the Dutch rustle!" says he. "And
the fool had to get drunk and give it away!"
The excitement was just started, but it didn't last long. The
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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: from sight of any land. On the fifth day the sailors were nervous,
but the captain apologized for their fears, saying that the ship
was about to pass over the weedy walls and broken columns of a
sunken city too old for memory, and that when the water was clear
one could see so many moving shadows in that deep place that simple
folk disliked it. He admitted, moreover, that many ships had been
lost in that part of the sea; having been hailed when quite close
to it, but never seen again.
That night the moon was very bright,
and one could see a great way down in the water. There was so
little wind that the ship could not move much, and the ocean was
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
