| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: Jim lay on his back, limp and still, obliquely
across the couch, his breast bared in the struggle, the
blood oozing a widening scarlet blot on his white
shirt. His head had fallen backward over the edge and
could not be seen.
Without moving a muscle, her body crouching, Nance
spoke:
"You wuz awake--you heered?"
"Yes!"
The gleaming eyes burned through the gray dawn, two
points of scintillating, hellish light fixed in purpose
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen: the smile on the full lips, or the expression of the whole face,
Clarke shuddered before it at his inmost soul, and thought,
unconsciously, of Dr. Phillip's words, "the most vivid
presentment of evil I have ever seen." He turned the paper over
mechanically in his hand and glanced at the back.
"Good God! Clarke, what is the matter? You are as
white as death."
Villiers had started wildly from his chair, as Clarke
fell back with a groan, and let the paper drop from his hands.
"I don't feel very well, Villiers, I am subject to
these attacks. Pour me out a little wine; thanks, that will do.
The Great God Pan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: red again, and rose from his seat trembling, while Medeia
watched him like a snake.
'What is Troezene to you?' she asked. But he said hastily,
'Do you not know who this Theseus is? The hero who has
cleared the country from all monsters; but that he came from
Troezene, I never heard before. I must go out and welcome
him.'
So AEgeus came out into the hall; and when Theseus saw him,
his heart leapt into his mouth, and he longed to fall on his
neck and welcome him; but he controlled himself, and said,
'My father may not wish for me, after all. I will try him
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