| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger: mother shrugged her shoulders listlessly, and replied, ``Don't know.''
In addition to bearing and rearing these children, her work would sap
the vitality of any ordinary person. ``She got home soon after four in
the morning, cooked breakfast for the family and ate hastily herself.
At 4.30 she was in bed, staying there until eight. But part of that
time was disturbed for the children were noisy and the apartment was a
tiny, dingy place in a basement. At eight she started the three
oldest boys to school, and cleaned up the debris of breakfast and of
supper the night before. At twelve she carried a hot lunch to her
husband and had dinner ready for the three school children. In the
afternoon, there were again dishes and cooking, and caring for three
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe: contracted some acquaintance with a gentleman who came to
the Bath for his diversion, yet I had entered into no felonious
treaty, as it might be called. I had resisted some casual offers
of gallantry, and had managed that way well enough. I was
not wicked enough to come into the crime for the mere vice
of it, and I had no extraordinary offers made me that tempted
me with the main thing which I wanted.
However, I went this length the first season, viz. I contracted
an acquaintance with a woman in whose house I lodged, who,
though she did not keep an ill house, as we call it, yet had none
of the best principles in herself. I had on all occasions behaved
Moll Flanders |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: were none other than the faithful trio which had guided him safely
from the abyss, and had thereafter set out from the enchanted
wood to find Sarkomand and the gate to their native deeps.
The
number of malodorous moonbeasts about that greenish fire was very
great, and Carter saw that he could do nothing now to save his
former allies. Of how the ghouls had been captured he could not
guess; but fancied that the grey toadlike blasphemies had heard
them inquire in Dylath-Leen concerning the way to Sarkomand and
had not wished them to approach so closely the hateful plateau
of Leng and the High-Priest Not To Be Described. For a moment
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
