| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: Flying inland from the
mountains, we discovered that the city was not of infinite width,
even though its length along the foothills seemed endless. After
about thirty miles the grotesque stone buildings began to thin
out, and in ten more miles we came to an unbroken waste virtually
without signs of sentient artifice. The course of the river beyond
the city seemed marked by a broad, depressed line, while the land
assumed a somewhat greater ruggedness, seeming to slope slightly
upward as it receded in the mist-hazed west.
So far we had made
no landing, yet to leave the plateau without an attempt at entering
At the Mountains of Madness |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare: Had the essence but in one;
Two distincts, division none:
Number there in love was slain.
Hearts remote, yet not asunder;
Distance, and no space was seen
'Twixt the turtle and his queen;
But in them it were a wonder.
So between them love did shine,
That the turtle saw his right
Flaming in the phoenix' sight:
Either was the other's mine.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte: 'Oh, yes, they are good company sometimes; but I cannot call them
friends, nor would they think of bestowing such a name on me - they
have other companions better suited to their tastes.'
'Perhaps you are too wise for them. How do you amuse yourself when
alone - do you read much?'
'Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and
books to read.'
From speaking of books in general, he passed to different books in
particular, and proceeded by rapid transitions from topic to topic,
till several matters, both of taste and opinion, had been discussed
considerably within the space of half an hour, but without the
Agnes Grey |
