| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Hero of Our Time by M.Y. Lermontov: "'The first time I saw your horse,' continued
Azamat, 'when he was wheeling and leaping
under you, his nostrils distended, and the flints
flying in showers from under his hoofs, something
I could not understand took place within my
soul; and since that time I have been weary of
everything. I have looked with disdain on my
father's best gallopers; I have been ashamed
to be seen on them, and yearning has taken pos-
session of me. In my anguish I have spent whole
days on the cliffs, and, every minute, my thoughts
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad: of never having seen that coast before. He seemed un-
able to put down his glasses, as though they had been
glued under his contracted eyebrows. This settled
frown gave to his face an air of invincible and just
severity; but his raised elbow trembled slightly, and
the perspiration poured from under his hat as if a
second sun had suddenly blazed up at the zenith by the
side of the ardent still globe already there, in whose
blinding white heat the earth whirled and shone like a
mote of dust.
From time to time, still holding up his glasses, he
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: of reports attained troublesomely vast proportions. On July 10,
1934, there was forwarded to me by the Psychological Society the
letter which opened the culminating and most horrible phase of
the whole mad ordeal. It was postmarked Pilbarra, Western Australia,
and bore the signature of one whom I found, upon inquiry, to be
a mining engineer of considerable prominence. Enclosed were some
very curious snapshots. I will reproduce the text in its entirety,
and no reader can fail to understand how tremendous an effect
it and the photographs had upon me.
I was, for a time, almost
stunned and incredulous; for although I had often thought that
Shadow out of Time |
