| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: clouds behind the tall buildings beside the Park before
she realized that they had been talking for more than
two hours.
She sprang to her feet, blushing and confused.
"Mercy, I had no idea it was so late."
"Why--is it late?" he asked incredulously.
"We must hurry----"
She brushed the stray ringlets of hair from her
forehead, laughed and hurried down the pathway.
They crossed the Park and took the Madison Avenue
line to Twenty-third Street. They were silent in the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer: hesitated to pronounce the dreaded name, as she always did.
"But how can we be sure that there is no trap laid for us?"
The Scotland Yard man did not entirely share my confidence in the integrity
of this Eastern girl whom he knew to have been a creature of the Chinaman's.
"Aziz lies in the private room," she explained eagerly, her old accent more
noticeable than usual. "There is only one of the Burmese men in the house,
and he--he dare not enter without orders!"
"But Fu-Manchu?"
"We have nothing to fear from him. He will be your prisoner
within ten minutes from now! I have no time for words--
you must believe!" She stamped her foot impatiently.
The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: came vividly into my consciousness. How often had I gone through
that intricate routine of varied turns and pressures in the terrestrial
vertebrate section on the lowest level! Every detail was fresh
and familiar.
If there were such a vault as I had dreamed of,
I could open it in a moment. It was then that madness took me
utterly. An instant later, and I was leaping and stumbling over
the rocky debris toward the well-remembered incline to the depths
below.
VII
From that point forward my impressions are scarcely
Shadow out of Time |
