| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: preternatural strength, and now and then hopping on or off some
anchored galley with long oars in their forepaws. And now and
then one would appear driving a herd of clumping slaves, which
indeed were approximate human beings with wide mouths like those
merchants who traded in Dylath-Leen; only these herds, being without
turbans or shoes or clothing, did not seem so very human after
all. Some of the slaves - the fatter ones, whom a sort of overseer
would pinch experimentally - were unloaded from ships and nailed
in crates which workers pushed into the low warehouses or loaded
on great lumbering vans.
Once a van was hitched and driven off,
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe: The first night they encamped all in the forest, and not far off of one
another, but not setting up the tent, lest that should discover them. On
the other hand, Richard went to work with his axe and his hatchet, and
cutting down branches of trees, he built three tents or hovels, in which
they all encamped with as much convenience as they could expect.
The provisions they had at Walthamstow served them very
plentifully this night; and as for the next, they left it to Providence.
They had fared so well with the old soldier's conduct that they now
willingly made him their leader, and the first of his conduct appeared
to be very good. He told them that they were now at a proper distance
enough from London; that as they need not be immediately beholden
A Journal of the Plague Year |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Somebody's Little Girl by Martha Young: It was not very long before Sister Helen Vincula came back from
seeing the ladies across the long bridge, and from telling them
Good-bye. As soon as she saw Bessie Bell leaning up against the
lady she cried:
``Why, Bessie Bell! ''
Bessie Bell said, ``Sister Helen Vincula,'' and she knew she had done
something wrong, but she could only wonder what.
But the lady said very quickly,- and she held Bessie Bell's hand
even harder than before,--she said:
``Sister Helen Vincula, I must ask you something--''
Sister Helen Vincula and the lady talked a long time.
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