| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: this intrusion from the dream-world, I found myself shaking and
bathed in a cold perspiration.
Then, as a last, intolerable
touch, I felt that faint, insidious stream of cool air trickling
upward from a depressed place near the center of the huge heap.
Instantly, as once before, my visions faded, and I saw again only
the evil moonlight, the brooding desert, and the spreading tumulus
of palaeogean masonry. Something real and tangible, yet fraught
with infinite suggestions of nighted mystery, now confronted me.
For that stream of air could argue but one thing - a hidden gulf
of great size beneath the disordered blocks on the surface.
Shadow out of Time |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: and peculiar fascinations of Possible Ones.
"I knit them myself," I heard the Frau Lehrer cry, "of thick grey wool. He
wears one a month, with two soft collars."
"And then," whispered Fraulein Lisa, "he said to me, 'Indeed you please me.
I shall, perhaps, write to your mother.'"
Small wonder that we were a little violently excited, a little
expostulatory.
Suddenly the door opened and admitted the Baron.
Followed a complete and deathlike silence.
He came in slowly, hesitated, took up a toothpick from a dish on the top of
the piano, and went out again.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The United States Bill of Rights: the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb;
nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself,
nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.
VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a
speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district
wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have
been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature
and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him;
to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor,
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