| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: and she was certain that he was thinking, we are not going to the
Lighthouse tomorrow; and she thought, he will remember that all his
life.
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No, she thought, putting together some of the pictures he had cut out--
a refrigerator, a mowing machine, a gentleman in evening dress--
children never forget. For this reason, it was so important what one
said, and what one did, and it was a relief when they went to bed. For
now she need not think about anybody. She could be herself, by
herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of--to think;
well, not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and
To the Lighthouse |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain: the SPECIFIC germs of the diseases from which death resulted."
'The gases (from buried corpses) will rise to the surface
through eight or ten feet of gravel, just as coal-gas will do,
and there is practically no limit to their power of escape.
'During the epidemic in New Orleans in 1853, Dr. E. H. Barton
reported that in the Fourth District the mortality was four hundred
and fifty-two per thousand--more than double that of any other.
In this district were three large cemeteries, in which during
the previous year more than three thousand bodies had been buried.
In other districts the proximity of cemeteries seemed to
aggravate the disease.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen: "I mean that you and I know her better under another
name."
"What name is that?"
"Herbert."
"Herbert!" Austin repeated the word, dazed with
astonishment.
"Yes, Mrs. Herbert of Paul Street, Helen Vaughan of
earlier adventures unknown to me. You had reason to recognize
the expression of her face; when you go home look at the face
in Meyrick's book of horrors, and you will know the sources of
your recollection."
The Great God Pan |
