| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: began at once to ply his informant with questions. Having noted
and copied an oral ritual among the swamp cult-worshippers his
men had arrested, he besought the professor to remember as best
he might the syllables taken down amongst the diabolist Esquimaux.
There then followed an exhaustive comparison of details, and a
moment of really awed silence when both detective and scientist
agreed on the virtual identity of the phrase common to two hellish
rituals so many worlds of distance apart. What, in substance,
both the Esquimaux wizards and the Louisiana swamp-priests had
chanted to their kindred idols was something very like this: the
word-divisions being guessed at from traditional breaks in the
Call of Cthulhu |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne: When in its early stages the earth was slowly cooling, its
contraction gave rise in its crust to disruptions, distortions,
fissures, and chasms. The passage through which we were moving was
such a fissure, through which at one time granite poured out in a
molten state. Its thousands of windings formed an inextricable
labyrinth through the primeval mass.
As fast as we descended, the succession of beds forming the primitive
foundation came out with increasing distinctness. Geologists consider
this primitive matter to be the base of the mineral crust of the
earth, and have ascertained it to be composed of three different
formations, schist, gneiss, and mica schist, resting upon that
Journey to the Center of the Earth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: little jug containing something which resembled marmalade.
So ravenous was she that she did not even wait for her com-
panion to reach the table, and as she ate she could have sworn
that never before had she tasted more palatable food. The
old woman came slowly and sat down on one of the benches
opposite her.
As she removed the smaller vessels from the larger and
arranged them before her on the table a crooked smile twisted
her lips as she watched the younger woman eat.
"Hunger is a great leveler," she said with a laugh.
"What do you mean?" asked the girl.
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