| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker: Adam, appalled, drew his wife to him and held her close. As far as
he could estimate by the interval between lightning and thunder-
clap, the heart of the storm was still some distance off, so he felt
no present concern for their safety. Still, it was apparent that
the course of the storm was moving swiftly in their direction. The
lightning flashes came faster and faster and closer together; the
thunder-roll was almost continuous, not stopping for a moment--a new
crash beginning before the old one had ceased. Adam kept looking up
in the direction where the kite strained and struggled at its
detaining cord, but, of course, the dull evening light prevented any
distinct scrutiny.
Lair of the White Worm |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hermione's Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis: much for the word.
Affinities have quite gone out, you know. You
don't hear much about Affinities this autumn.
Nor Soul Mates, either, for that matter.
Though I always will say there's an IDEA behind
all the talk about them.
Isn't it odd about things that way -- how Ideas
come and go, you know, and become quite old-
fashioned, and yet all the time have a QUITE pro-
found Idea back of them?
There's Cubist and Futurist Art, for instance --
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs: marched with eyes straight to the front and with scowling faces.
Bradley felt his blood boil at sight of the cowardly indignities
being heaped upon his men, and in the brief span of time occupied
by the column to come abreast of where he lay hidden he made his
plans, foolhardy though he knew them. Then he drew the girl
close to him. "Stay here," he whispered. "I am going out to
fight those beasts; but I shall be killed. Do not let them
see you. Do not let them take you alive. They are more cruel,
more cowardly, more bestial than the Wieroos."
The girl pressed close to him, her face very white. "Go, if that
is right," she whispered; "but if you die, I shall die, for I
Out of Time's Abyss |
