| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from La Grande Breteche by Honore de Balzac: " 'Yes, monsieur.'
" 'One moment!' said he, repeating his gesture. 'That constitutes a
misdemeanor. Monsieur, as executor under the will of the late Comtesse
de Merret, I come in her name to beg you to discontinue the practice.
One moment! I am not a Turk, and do not wish to make a crime of it.
And besides, you are free to be ignorant of the circumstances which
compel me to leave the finest mansion in Vendome to fall into ruin.
Nevertheless, monsieur, you must be a man of education, and you should
know that the laws forbid, under heavy penalties, any trespass on
enclosed property. A hedge is the same as a wall. But, the state in
which the place is left may be an excuse for your curiosity. For my
La Grande Breteche |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: balked, he plunged, he bit and kicked. He had to be pulled and
beaten over many places. Mercedes's horse almost threw her,
and she was put upon Blanco Sol. The white charger snorted
a protest, then, obedient to Gale's stern call, patiently lowered
his noble head and pawed the lava for a footing that would hold.
The lava caused Gale toil and worry and pain, but he hated the
choyas. As the travel progressed this species of cactus increased
in number of plants and in size. Everywhere the red lava was
spotted with little round patches of glistening frosty white. And
under every bunch of choya, along and in the trail, were the
discarded joints, like little frosty pine cones covered with spines.
Desert Gold |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: those superior minds capable of projection. From cases of the
permanent projection of elder minds arose many of those lasting
changes of personality noticed in later history - including mankind's.
As for the ordinary cases of exploration - when the displacing
mind had learned what it wished in the future, it would build
an apparatus like that which had started its flight and reverse
the process of projection. Once more it would be in its own body
in its own age, while the lately captive mind would return to
that body of the future to which it properly belonged.
Only
when one or the other of the bodies had died during the exchange
Shadow out of Time |
