| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: "All my walks are pleasant, thank you--they do me such a lot of
good." She was as quiet as a mouse, and her words seemed to me
stupendous in their wisdom. "I take several a day," she continued.
She might have been an ancient woman responding with humility at
the church door to the patronage of the parson. "The more I take
the better I feel. I'm ordered by the doctors to keep all the
while in the air and go in for plenty of exercise. It keeps up my
general health, you know, and if that goes on improving as it has
lately done everything will soon be all right. All that was the
matter with me before--and always; it was too reckless!--was that I
neglected my general health. It acts directly on the state of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: the subterrene mazes which had underlain the city and linked all
the titan towers, how much had still survived the writhings of
earth's crust?
Had I come upon a whole buried world of unholy
archaism? Could I still find the house of the writing master,
and the tower where S'gg'ha, the captive mind from the star-headed
vegetable carnivores of Antarctica, had chiselled certain pictures
on the blank spaces of the walls?
Would the passage at the second
level down, to the hall of the alien minds, be still unchoked
and traversable? In that hall the captive mind of an incredible
Shadow out of Time |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Red Inn by Honore de Balzac: you just now, you can have no bed but the chair on which you are
sitting, and no other chamber than this public room."
At these words the little man cast upon the landlord, the room, and
the two Frenchmen a look in which caution and alarm were equally
expressed.
["Here," said Monsieur Hermann, interrupting himself, "I ought to tell
you that we have never known the real name nor the history of this
man; his papers showed that he came from Aix-la-Chapelle; he called
himself Wahlenfer and said that he owned a rather extensive pin
manufactory in the suburbs of Neuwied. Like all the manufacturers of
that region, he wore a surtout coat of common cloth, waistcoat and
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