| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: I was holding something back, and perhaps suspected graver things;
but I could not tell them the truth because they would not have
believed it. They knew, indeed, that West had been connected with
activities beyond the credence of ordinary men; for his hideous
experiments in the reanimation of dead bodies had long been too
extensive to admit of perfect secrecy; but the final soul-shattering
catastrophe held elements of daemoniac phantasy which make even
me doubt the reality of what I saw.
I was West’s closest friend
and only confidential assistant. We had met years before, in medical
school, and from the first I had shared his terrible researches.
Herbert West: Reanimator |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare: 'I hate' she alter'd with an end,
That followed it as gentle day,
Doth follow night, who like a fiend
From heaven to hell is flown away.
'I hate', from hate away she threw,
And sav'd my life, saying 'not you'.
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Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth,
My sinful earth these rebel powers array,
Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth,
Painting thy outward walls so costly gay?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Silas Marner by George Eliot: accomplishments, could at length be prevailed on to dance a
hornpipe, and when the Squire preferred talking loudly, scattering
snuff, and patting his visitors' backs, to sitting longer at the
whist-table--a choice exasperating to uncle Kimble, who, being
always volatile in sober business hours, became intense and bitter
over cards and brandy, shuffled before his adversary's deal with a
glare of suspicion, and turned up a mean trump-card with an air of
inexpressible disgust, as if in a world where such things could
happen one might as well enter on a course of reckless profligacy.
When the evening had advanced to this pitch of freedom and
enjoyment, it was usual for the servants, the heavy duties of supper
Silas Marner |
