The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Love Songs by Sara Teasdale: And nothing now to do.
Lights
When we come home at night and close the door,
Standing together in the shadowy room,
Safe in our own love and the gentle gloom,
Glad of familiar wall and chair and floor,
Glad to leave far below the clanging city;
Looking far downward to the glaring street
Gaudy with light, yet tired with many feet,
In both of us wells up a wordless pity;
Men have tried hard to put away the dark;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: and later guiding his feet as he clutched at the blessed soil
of the upper dreamland outside. Another second and they were through
themselves, knocking away the gravestone and closing the great
trap door while a panting became audible beneath. Because of the
Great One's curse no Gug might ever emerge from that portal, so
with a deep relief and sense of repose Carter lay quietly on the
thick grotesque fungi of the enchanted wood while his guides squatted
near in the manner that ghouls rest.
Weird as was that enchanted
wood through which he had fared so long ago, it was verily a haven
and a delight after those gulfs he had now left behind. There
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Catherine de Medici by Honore de Balzac: face!" continued the apprentice, mimicking the man, "with his nose in
his cloak, his yellow eyes, and that famished look!"
When the stranger thus described caught sight of Christophe alone on
the door-sill, he suddenly left the opposite gallery where he was then
walking, crossed the street rapidly, and came under the arcade in
front of the Lecamus house. There he passed slowly along in front of
the shop, and before the apprentices returned to close the outer
shutters he said to Christophe in a low voice:--
"I am Chaudieu."
Hearing the name of one of the most illustrious ministers and devoted
actors in the terrible drama called "The Reformation," Christophe
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