| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac: hundred thousand francs, while pocketing twelve hundred thousand. He
did not announce his return; but while his wife was enduring
unspeakable woes, he was building farms, digging trenches, and
ploughing rough ground with a courage that ranked him among the most
remarkable agriculturists of the province.
The four hundred thousand francs he had filched from his wife were
spent in three years on this undertaking, and the estate of Anzy was
expected to return seventy-two thousand francs a year of net profits
after the taxes were paid. The eight hundred thousand he invested at
four and a half per cent in the funds, buying at eighty francs, at the
time of the financial crisis brought about by the Ministry of the
The Muse of the Department |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: in Arkham. While he was with me, the wonder and diabolism of his
experiments fascinated me utterly, and I was his closest companion.
Now that he is gone and the spell is broken, the actual fear is
greater. Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than
realities.
The first horrible incident of our acquaintance was
the greatest shock I ever experienced, and it is only with reluctance
that I repeat it. As I have said, it happened when we were in
the medical school where West had already made himself notorious
through his wild theories on the nature of death and the possibility
of overcoming it artificially. His views, which were widely ridiculed
Herbert West: Reanimator |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Purse by Honore de Balzac: fluid, and express our sentiments in a formula of ratios of
oxygen and electricity.
These details will perhaps explain to strong-minded persons and
to men of fashion why, in the absence of the porter whom he had
sent to the end of the Rue de la Madeleine to call him a coach,
Hippolyte Schinner did not ask the man's wife any questions
concerning the two women whose kindness of heart had shown itself
in his behalf. But though he replied Yes or No to the inquiries,
natural under the circumstances, which the good woman made as to
his accident, and the friendly intervention of the tenants
occupying the fourth floor, he could not hinder her from
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