| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: five years' taxes on all the neighboring cottages if the owners would
have their roofs thatched with straw. Perhaps their refusal took the
heart out of his plan to Found a Family--he went into an immediate
decline. His children sold his house with the black wreath still on the
door. Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always
been obstinate about being peasantry.
After half an hour, the sun shone again, and the grocer's automobile
rounded Gatsby's drive with the raw material for his servants' dinner--I
felt sure he wouldn't eat a spoonful. A maid began opening the upper
windows of his house, appeared momentarily in each, and, leaning from a
large central bay, spat meditatively into the garden. It was time I
The Great Gatsby |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum: ground in many undignified attitudes.
"For the love of sassafras!" exclaimed a
Peculiar Person who was hoeing pink violets in a
garden. "What can all this mean?"
For answer, Queen Ann sailed up from the
Tube, took a ride through the air as high as the
treetops, and alighted squarely on top of the
Peculiar Person's head, smashing a jeweled
crown over his eyes and tumbling him to the
ground.
The mule was heavier and had Betsy clinging to
Tik-Tok of Oz |
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: you, and would indeed have helped you hither long ago had I not
been elsewhere busy,and certain that you would yourself find the
way. Shun then, the outer hells, and stick to the calm, lovely
things of your youth. Seek out your marvellous city and drive
thence the recreant Great Ones, sending them back gently to those
scenes which are of their own youth, and which wait uneasy for
their return.
"Easier even then the way of dim memory is the
way I will prepare for you. See! There comes hither a monstrous
Shantak, led by a slave who for your peace of mind had best keep
invisible. Mount and be ready - there! Yogash the Black will help
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
