| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Princess by Alfred Tennyson: The loyal warmth of Florian is not cold,
But branches current yet in kindred veins.'
'Are you that Psyche,' Florian added; 'she
With whom I sang about the morning hills,
Flung ball, flew kite, and raced the purple fly,
And snared the squirrel of the glen? are you
That Psyche, wont to bind my throbbing brow,
To smoothe my pillow, mix the foaming draught
Of fever, tell me pleasant tales, and read
My sickness down to happy dreams? are you
That brother-sister Psyche, both in one?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Persuasion by Jane Austen: from Clifton--a very fine young man--but they could not say whether
it was seven or eight years ago, was a new sort of trial to Anne's nerves.
She found, however, that it was one to which she must inure herself.
Since he actually was expected in the country, she must teach herself
to be insensible on such points. And not only did it appear that
he was expected, and speedily, but the Musgroves, in their warm gratitude
for the kindness he had shewn poor Dick, and very high respect
for his character, stamped as it was by poor Dick's having been
six months under his care, and mentioning him in strong,
though not perfectly well-spelt praise, as "a fine dashing felow,
only two perticular about the schoolmaster," were bent on
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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: silken-masked blasphemy from whose clutches he had so narrowly
escaped. This time no descent was made as the army swept batlike
over the sterile landscape, passing the feeble fires of the unwholesome
stone villages at a great altitude, and pausing not at all to
mark the morbid twistings of the hooved, horned almost-humans
that dance and pipe eternally therein. Once they saw a Shantak-bird
flying low over the plain, but when it saw them it screamed noxiously
and flapped off to the north in grotesque panic.
At dusk they
reached the jagged grey peaks that form the barrier of Inquanok,
and hovered about these strange caves near the summits which Carter
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
