| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: West was about to relegate the mystery of life to the category
of myth. The body now twitched more vigorously, and beneath our
avid eyes commenced to heave in a frightful way. The arms stirred
disquietingly, the legs drew up, and various muscles contracted
in a repulsive kind of writhing. Then the headless thing threw
out its arms in a gesture which was unmistakably one of desperation
-- an intelligent desperation apparently sufficient to prove every
theory of Herbert West. Certainly, the nerves were recalling the
man’s last act in life; the struggle to get free of the falling
aeroplane.
What followed, I shall never positively know. It
Herbert West: Reanimator |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The War in the Air by H. G. Wells: that tomorrow before anybody much was about...."
"Nice to think of old Suet-and-Bones coming round to make his
usual row with us, and finding a card up 'Closed for Repairs.'"
"We'll do that," said Grubb with zest--"we'll do that. And we'll
put up another notice, and jest arst all inquirers to go round to
'im and inquire. See? Then they'll know all about us."
Before the day was out the whole enterprise was planned. They
decided at first that they would call themselves the Naval Mr.
O's, a plagiarism, and not perhaps a very good one, from the
title of the well-known troupe of "Scarlet Mr. E's," and Bert
rather clung to the idea of a uniform of bright blue serge, with
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: The young people drifted to the other end of the
hall where the guitar was sounding. In a mo-
ment she heard Emil and Raoul singing:--
"Across the Rio Grand-e
There lies a sunny land-e,
My bright-eyed Mexico!"
Alexandra Bergson came up to the card
O Pioneers! |
