| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac: name of the city, Issous-Dun,--"Is" being the abbreviation of "Isis."
Richard Coeur-de-lion undoubtedly built the famous tower (in which he
coined money) above the basilica of the fifth century,--the third
monument of the third religion of this ancient town. He used the
church as a necessary foundation, or stay, for the raising of the
rampart; and he preserved it by covering it with feudal fortifications
as with a mantle. Issoudun was at that time the seat of the ephemeral
power of the Routiers and the Cottereaux, adventurers and free-
lancers, whom Henry II. sent against his son Richard, at the time of
his rebellion as Comte de Poitou.
The history of Aquitaine, which was not written by the Benedictines,
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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: of daily life. All were the merest misty, disconnected fragments,
and it is certain that these fragments were not unfolded in their
rightful sequence. I have, for example, a very imperfect idea
of my own living arrangements in the dream-world; though I seem
to have possessed a great stone room of my own. My restrictions
as a prisoner gradually disappeared, so that some of the visions
included vivid travels over the mighty jungle roads, sojourns
in strange cities, and explorations of some of the vast, dark,
windowless ruins from which the Great Race shrank in curious fear.
There were also long sea voyages in enormous, many-decked boats
of incredible swiftness, and trips over wild regions in closed
Shadow out of Time |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Adam Bede by George Eliot: has been telling me what Adam has done, for these many years, to
help his father and his brother; it's wonderful what a spirit of
wisdom and knowledge he has, and how he's ready to use it all in
behalf of them that are feeble. And I'm sure he has a loving
spirit too. I've noticed it often among my own people round
Snowfield, that the strong, skilful men are often the gentlest to
the women and children; and it's pretty to see 'em carrying the
little babies as if they were no heavier than little birds. And
the babies always seem to like the strong arm best. I feel sure
it would be so with Adam Bede. Don't you think so, Hetty?"
"Yes," said Hetty abstractedly, for her mind had been all the
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