| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: My results, aided by psychologists, historians, anthropologists,
and mental specialists of wide experience, and by a study that
included all records of split personalities from the days of daemonic-possession
legends to the medically realistic present, at first bothered
me more than they consoled me.
I soon found that my dreams had,
indeed, no counterpart in the overwhelming bulk of true amnesia
cases. There remained, however, a tiny residue of accounts which
for years baffled and shocked me with their parallelism to my
own experience. Some of them were bits of ancient folklore; others
were case histories in the annals of medicine; one or two were
Shadow out of Time |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The United States Bill of Rights: The Ten Original Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
Passed by Congress September 25, 1789
Ratified December 15, 1791
I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech,
or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,
and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
II
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,
the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Last War: A World Set Free by H. G. Wells: staggered into the cramped standing position his straps
permitted, hoisted out and bit another bomb, and sent it down
after its fellow.
The explosion came this time more directly underneath the
aeroplane and shot it upward edgeways. The bomb box tipped to
the point of disgorgement, and the bomb-thrower was pitched
forward upon the third bomb with his face close to its celluloid
stud. He clutched its handles, and with a sudden gust of
determination that the thing should not escape him, bit its stud.
Before he could hurl it over, the monoplane was slipping
sideways. Everything was falling sideways. Instinctively he gave
The Last War: A World Set Free |
