| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: top a gaunt circle of stones could be glimpsed against the sky.
From the air of hushed fright at Osborn's store they knew something
hideous had happened, and soon learned of the annihilation of
the Elmer Frye house and family. Throughout that afternoon they
rode around Dunwich, questioning the natives concerning all that
had occurred, and seeing for themselves with rising pangs of horror
the drear Frye ruins with their lingering traces of the tarry
stickiness, the blasphemous tracks in the Frye yard, the wounded
Seth Bishop cattle, and the enormous swaths of disturbed vegetation
in various places. The trail up and down Sentinel Hill seemed
to Armitage of almost cataclysmic significance, and he looked
The Dunwich Horror |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: You came aboard voluntarily, and you may take the consequences.
I little thought," he added to himself, "that any such
good luck as this would come to me."
He went on deck then, locking the cabin-door upon his prisoner,
and for several days she did not see him. The truth of the
matter being that Nikolas Rokoff was so poor a sailor
that the heavy seas the Kincaid encountered from the very
beginning of her voyage sent the Russian to his berth with a
bad attack of sea-sickness.
During this time her only visitor was an uncouth Swede,
the Kincaid's unsavoury cook, who brought her meals to her.
The Beasts of Tarzan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Melmoth Reconciled by Honore de Balzac: in the Place de Greve. You are the headsman's property! there is no
escape for you. You belong to a vendita, of the Carbonari. You are
plotting against the Government."
"You did not tell me that," cried the Piedmontese, turning to Leon.
"So you do not know that the Minister decided this morning to put down
your Society?" the cashier continued. "The Procureur-General has a
list of your names. You have been betrayed. They are busy drawing up
the indictment at this moment."
"Then was it you who betrayed him?" cried Aquilina, and with a hoarse
sound in her throat like the growl of a tigress she rose to her feet;
she seemed as if she would tear Castanier in pieces.
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