| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: ashes and charred bits of paper.
"The notes, probably," he said ruefully. "He got them after all,
and burned them before her. It was more than she could stand.
Stabbed him first and then herself."
Hotchkiss got up and took off his hat. "They are dead," he
announced solemnly, and took his note-book out of his hatband.
McKnight and I did the only thing we could think of - drove
Hotchkiss and the dog out of the room, and closed and locked the
door. "It's a matter for the police," McKnight asserted. "I
suppose you've got an officer tied to you somewhere, Lawrence?
You usually have."
The Man in Lower Ten |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: most honourable man, and capable of nothing that is mean or
disgraceful."
"Capable of much that is unreasonable, though; that you must
needs allow, master. Death will soon put him in possession of a
fair estate, if he hath it not already; old Lady Girnington--an
excellent person, excepting that her inveterate ill-nature
rendered her intolerable to the whole world--is probably dead by
this time. Six heirs portioners have successively died to make
her wealthy. I know the estates well; they march with my own--a
noble property."
"I am glad of it," said Ravenswood, "and should be more so, were
The Bride of Lammermoor |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: the Zulu spears."
I tried to think the thing out and could not, so only asked--
"How did I come? What happened to me?"
"I think the sun smote you first who had no covering on your head
and the lightning smote you afterwards. Yet all the while that
reason had left you, One led your horse and after the Heavens had
tried to kill you and failed, perhaps because my magic was too
strong for them, One sent that beast which you found, yes, sent
it here to lead us to where you lay. There you were discovered
and brought hither. Now sleep lest you should go further than
even I can fetch you back again."
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