| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: in any of them, except Consuelo, and even she told lies."
"Do not begin upon Hope," said Aunt Jane. "It is the only
subject on which Kate can be tedious. Tell me about the
dresses. Were people over-dressed or under-dressed?"
"Under-dressed," said Phil. "Miss Ingleside had a half-inch
strip of muslin over her shoulder."
Here Philip followed Hope out of the room, and Emilia presently
followed him.
"Tell on!" said Aunt Jane. "How did Philip enjoy himself?"
"He is easily amused, you know," said Kate. "He likes to
observe people, and to shoot folly as it flies."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: had been killed and treated, but their trail was a blind one.
West had never fully succeeded because he had never been able
to secure a corpse sufficiently fresh. What he wanted were bodies
from which vitality had only just departed; bodies with every
cell intact and capable of receiving again the impulse toward
that mode of motion called life. There was hope that this second
and artificial life might be made perpetual by repetitions of
the injection, but we had learned that an ordinary natural life
would not respond to the action. To establish the artificial motion,
natural life must be extinct -- the specimens must be very fresh,
but genuinely dead.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: shot the heavens. The watchman, coming suddenly from
the doorway, his hat brim pulled low over his eyes, passed
within a couple of paces of the stranger without seeing him.
Five minutes later there was a blinding glare accompanied
by a deafening roar. It was as though nature had marshaled
all her forces in one mighty, devastating effort. At the same
instant the walls of the great mill burst asunder, a nebulous
mass of burning gas shot heavenward, and then the flames
settled down to complete the destruction of the ruin.
It was the following morning that Victoria and Barney
Custer, with Lieutenant Butzow and Custer's partner, stood
The Mad King |
