| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: migration becomes impossible.
It is soon resumed, but in a direction whereof I never dreamt. The
hot sun is beating on a certain part of the floor. At this spot,
which is warmer than the rest, a column of lighter, ascending air
is generated. If this column catch the threads, my Spiders ought
to rise to the ceiling of the room.
The curious ascent does, in fact, take place. Unfortunately, my
troop, which has been greatly reduced by the number of departures
through the window, does not lend itself to prolonged experiment.
We must begin again.
The next morning, on the same yucca, I gather the second family, as
The Life of the Spider |
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: of the same unknown and gigantic species. Their size reminded
us of some of the archaic penguins depicted in the Old Ones’ sculptures,
and it did not take us long to conclude that they were descended
from the same stock-undoubtedly surviving through a retreat to
some warmer inner region whose perpetual blackness had destroyed
their pigmentation and atrophied their eyes to mere useless slits.
That their present habitat was the vast abyss we sought, was not
for a moment to be doubted; and this evidence of the gulf’s continued
warmth and habitability filled us with the most curious and subtly
perturbing fancies.
We wondered, too, what had caused these
At the Mountains of Madness |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Collection of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: THE TALE OF
PIGLING BLAND
FOR
CECILY AND CHARLIE,
A TALE OF
THE CHRISTMAS PIG.
THE TALE OF PIGLING BLAND
ONCE upon a time there was an
old pig called Aunt Pettitoes.
She had eight of a family: four
little girl pigs, called Cross-patch,
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