| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde: tried to look into his own mind; your man will not come.
GUIDO
Well, I suppose you are right. Ah! [Just as he is leaving the
stage with ASCANIO, enter LORD MORANZONE in a violet cloak, with a
silver falcon broidered on the shoulder; he passes across to the
Cathedral, and just as he is going in GUIDO runs up and touches
him.]
MORANZONE
Guido Ferranti, thou hast come in time.
GUIDO
What! Does my father live?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: we could not convince each other, or even ourselves, of anything
definite. We had turned off all light as we stood still, and vaguely
noticed that a trace of deeply filtered upper day kept the blackness
from being absolute. Having automatically begun to move ahead,
we guided ourselves by occasional flashes from our torch. The
disturbed debris formed an impression we could not shake off,
and the smell of gasoline grew stronger. More and more ruin met
our eyes and hampered our feet, until very soon we saw that the
forward way was about to cease. We had been all too correct in
our pessimistic guess about that rift glimpsed from the air. Our
tunnel quest was a blind one, and we were not even going to be
At the Mountains of Madness |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott: the love and praise of their kind Queen, now disobeyed and blamed her
for all she had done for them.
Long she bore with their unkind words and deeds; and when at length
she found it was the ungrateful Fairy who had wrought this trouble in
her quiet kingdom, she strove, with sweet, forgiving words, to show
him all the wrong he had done; but he would not listen, and still went
on destroying the happiness of those who had done so much for him.
Then, when she saw that no kindness could touch his heart, she said:--
"Thistledown, we took you in, a friendless stranger, fed and clothed
you, and made our home as pleasant to you as we could; and in return
for all our care, you have brought discontent and trouble to my
Flower Fables |
