| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: kicked the upholstered leather of a divan uneasily.
There is a Miss Hayden, a ward of my uncle, who
lived in his house. She's a quiet thing - musical -
the daughter of somebody who was unlucky enough to
be his friend. I forgot to say that she was in on the
seal ring and $10 joke, too. I wish I had been.
Then I could have had two bottles of brut, tipped the
waiter with the ring and had the whole business off
my bands. Don't be superior and insulting, Old Bry-
son - tell me what a fellow can do with a thousand
dollars."
The Voice of the City |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: been tied, and still greater was he vexed on finding that the
steed was quite dead, with its blood all sucked away through a
singular wound in its throat. His pack had been disturbed, and
several shiny knickknacks taken away, and all round on the dusty
soil' were great webbed footprints for which he could not in any
way account. The legends and warnings of lava-gatherers occurred
to him, and he thought of what had brushed his face in the night.
Then he shouldered his pack and strode on toward Ngranek, though
not without a shiver when he saw close to him as the highway passed
through the ruins a great gaping arch low in the wall of an old
temple, with steps leading down into darkness farther than he
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Essays & Lectures by Oscar Wilde: Renaissance, it was the words of Aristotle which sent Columbus
sailing to the New World, while a fragment of Pythagorean astronomy
set Copernicus thinking on that train of reasoning which has
revolutionised the whole position of our planet in the universe.
Then it was seen that the only meaning of progress is a return to
Greek modes of thought. The monkish hymns which obscured the pages
of Greek manuscripts were blotted out, the splendours of a new
method were unfolded to the world, and out of the melancholy sea of
mediaevalism rose the free spirit of man in all that splendour of
glad adolescence, when the bodily powers seem quickened by a new
vitality, when the eye sees more clearly than its wont and the mind
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