| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson: in which I might very well have failed. What else is to be
done for these silly folks?
MAY 12TH.
And this is where I had got to, before the mail arrives with,
I must say, a real gentlemanly letter from yourself. Sir,
that is the sort of letter I want! Now, I'll make my little
proposal. I will accept CHILD'S PLAY and PAN'S PIPES. Then I
want PASTORAL, THE MANSE, THE ISLET, leaving out if you like
all the prefacial matter and beginning at I. Then the
portrait of Robert Hunter, beginning 'Whether he was
originally big or little,' and ending 'fearless and gentle.'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: is dead. Might not the deeper inquiries of my uncle after encountering
the sculptor's data have come to sinister ears?. I think Professor
Angell died because he knew too much, or because he was likely
to learn too much. Whether I shall go as he did remains to be
seen, for I have learned much now.
III. The Madness from the
Sea
If heaven ever wishes to grant me a boon, it will be a total
effacing of the results of a mere chance which fixed my eye on
a certain stray piece of shelf-paper. It was nothing on which
I would naturally have stumbled in the course of my daily round,
Call of Cthulhu |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Poor and Proud by Oliver Optic: "Not yet," said the little candy merchant, with a smile.
"Yes, I am."
"Your face and hands are very dirty."
"What odds will that make?" asked Ann, rather indignantly.
"Do you suppose anybody would eat a stick of candy after you had
touched it with those dirty fingers? Your customers would be
afraid of being poisoned."
"I s'pose I can wash 'em," replied Ann, who seemed still to
regard it as a very unnecessary operation.
"It would be a good plan; and while you are about it you must not
forget your face."
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