| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: a phantom sun, but bitter blasts of wind
still swept over the plain.
"In those days," said Spadevil, "there existed in Ifdawn a mountain
island separated by wide spaces from the land around it. A handsome
girl, who knew sorcery, caused a bridge to be constructed across
which men and women might pass to it. Having by a false tale drawn
Hator on to this rock, she pushed at the bridge with her foot until
it tumbled into the depths below. 'You and I, Hator, are now
together, and there is no means of separating. I wish to see how long
the famous frost man can withstand the breath, smiles and perfume of
a girl.' Hator said no word, either then or all that day. He stood
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tour Through Eastern Counties of England by Daniel Defoe: There is but one church in this town, but it is a very large one
and well built, as most of the churches in this county are, and of
impenetrable flint; indeed, there is no occasion for its being so
large, for staying there one Sabbath day, I was surprised to see an
extraordinary large church, capable of receiving five or six
thousand people, and but twenty-seven in it besides the parson and
the clerk; but at the same time the meeting-house of the Dissenters
was full to the very doors, having, as I guessed, from six to eight
hundred people in it.
This town is made famous for a very great engagement at sea, in the
year 1672, between the English and Dutch fleets, in the bay
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from La Grenadiere by Honore de Balzac: be alone in the world, with no one to help or befriend you. While you
are still children, I shall leave you, and yet, if only I could wait
till you are big enough and know enough to be Marie's guardian! But I
shall not live so long. I love you so much that it makes me very
unhappy to think of it. Dear children, if only you do not curse me
some day!----"
"But why should I curse you some day, mother?"
"Some day," she said, kissing him on the forehead, "you will find out
that I have wronged you. I am going to leave you, here, without money,
without"--and she hesitated--"without a father," she added, and at the
word she burst into tears and put the boy from her gently. A sort of
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