| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad: half a mile to the south of the Coastguard cottages,
are familiar to the skippers of small craft. These
are the official seamarks for the patch of trust-
worthy bottom represented on the Admiralty charts
by an irregular oval of dots enclosing several fig-
ures six, with a tiny anchor engraved among them,
and the legend "mud and shells" over all.
The brow of the upland overtops the square
tower of the Colebrook Church. The slope is
green and looped by a white road. Ascending
along this road, you open a valley broad and shal-
Amy Foster |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: for guinea-pigs would not serve for human beings, and different
human specimens required large modifications.
The bodies had
to be exceedingly fresh, or the slight decomposition of brain
tissue would render perfect reanimation impossible. Indeed, the
greatest problem was to get them fresh enough -- West had had
horrible experiences during his secret college researches with
corpses of doubtful vintage. The results of partial or imperfect
animation were much more hideous than were the total failures,
and we both held fearsome recollections of such things. Ever since
our first daemoniac session in the deserted farmhouse on Meadow
Herbert West: Reanimator |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Plutarch's Lives by A. H. Clough: only that we should take a view of them in comparison with one
another.
As for the Gracchi, the greatest detractors and their worst
enemies could not but allow, that they had a genius to virtue
beyond all other Romans, which was improved also by a generous
education. Agis and Cleomenes may be supposed to have had
stronger natural gifts, since, though they wanted all the
advantages of good education, and were bred up in those very
customs, manners, and habits of living, which had for a long time
corrupted others, yet they were public examples of temperance and
frugality. Besides, the Gracchi, happening to live when Rome had
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