| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Just Folks by Edgar A. Guest: Under the fleecy sky,
Day dreaming there;
From grief I find surcease,
From worry gain release,
Resting in perfect peace,
Free from all care.
When Father Played Baseball
The smell of arnica is strong,
And mother's time is spent
In rubbing father's arms and back
With burning liniment.
Just Folks |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: soft-voiced, and spectacled, with only an occasional flash of
a cold blue eye to tell of the hardening and growing fanaticism
of his character under the pressure of his terrible investigations.
Our experiences had often been hideous in the extreme; the results
of defective reanimation, when lumps of graveyard clay had been
galvanised into morbid, unnatural, and brainless motion by various
modifications of the vital solution.
One thing had uttered a
nerve-shattering scream; another had risen violently, beaten us
both to unconsciousness, and run amuck in a shocking way before
it could be placed behind asylum bars; still another, a loathsome
Herbert West: Reanimator |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: non posset: neque suam neque populi Romani consuetudinem pati ut optime
meritos socios desereret, neque se iudicare Galliam potius esse Ariovisti
quam populi Romani. Bello superatos esse Arvernos et Rutenos a Q. Fabio
Maximo, quibus populus Romanus ignovisset neque in provinciam redegisset
neque stipendium posuisset. Quod si antiquissimum quodque tempus spectari
oporteret, populi Romani iustissimum esse in Gallia imperium; si iudicium
senatus observari oporteret, liberam debere esse Galliam, quam bello
victam suis legibus uti voluisset.
Dum haec in conloquio geruntur, Caesari nuntiatum est equites
Ariovisti propius tumulum accedere et ad nostros adequitare, lapides
telaque in nostros coicere. Caesar loquendi finem fecit seque ad suos
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