| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: CRITICISMS
CHAPTER III - BAGSTER'S 'PILGRIM'S PROGRESS'
I HAVE here before me an edition of the PILGRIM'S PROGRESS,
bound in green, without a date, and described as 'illustrated
by nearly three hundred engravings, and memoir of Bunyan.'
On the outside it is lettered 'Bagster's Illustrated
Edition,' and after the author's apology, facing the first
page of the tale, a folding pictorial 'Plan of the Road' is
marked as 'drawn by the late Mr. T. Conder,' and engraved by
J. Basire. No further information is anywhere vouchsafed;
perhaps the publishers had judged the work too unimportant;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Another Study of Woman by Honore de Balzac: Honore. During the winter, she haunts the terrace of the Feuillants,
but not the asphalt pavement that lies parallel. According to the
weather, she may be seen flying in the Avenue of the Champs-Elysees,
which is bounded on the east by the Place Louis XV., on the west by
the Avenue de Marigny, to the south by the road, to the north by the
gardens of the Faubourg Saint-Honore. Never is this pretty variety of
woman to be seen in the hyperborean regions of the Rue Saint-Denis,
never in the Kamtschatka of miry, narrow, commercial streets, never
anywhere in bad weather. These flowers of Paris, blooming only in
Oriental weather, perfume the highways; and after five o'clock fold up
like morning-glory flowers. The women you will see later, looking a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: Once I saw an area of countless miles strewn with age-blasted
basaltic ruins whose architecture had been like that of the few
windowless, round-topped towers in the haunting city.
And once
I saw the sea - a boundless, steamy expanse beyond the colossal
stone piers of an enormous town of domes and arches. Great shapeless
sugggestions of shadow moved over it, and here and there its surface
was vexed ith anomalous spoutings.
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As I have said, it
was not immediately that these wild visions began to hold their
Shadow out of Time |
