| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: myths and case histories, to expect. As mental barriers wore down,
I beheld great masses of thin vapour in various parts of the building
and in the streets below.
These steadily grew more solid and
distinct, till at last I could trace their monstrous outlines
with uncomfortable ease. They seemed to be enormous, iridescent
cones, about ten feet high and ten feet wide at the base, and
made up of some ridgy, scaly, semi-elastic matter. From their
apexes projected four flexible, cylindrical members, each a foot
thick, and of a ridgy substance like that of the cones themselves.
These members were sometimes contracted almost to nothing, and
Shadow out of Time |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: himself experienced a momentary sense of depression at the sight
of the box of Reginald Maltravers. It looked so damp, it looked
so chill, it looked so starkly and patiently and malevolently
watchful of himself and Lady Agatha. In a flash his lively fancy
furnished him with a picture of the box of Reginald Maltravers
suddenly springing upright and hopping towards him on one end
with a series of stiff jumps that would send drops of moisture
flying from the cracks and seams and make the ice inside of it
clink and tinkle. And the mournful Elmer, now drowsing callously
over his charge, was not an invitation to be blithe. If Cleggett
himself were so affected (he mused) what must be the effect of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson: strength to keep to it.
Yes, I preferred the elderly and discontented doctor,
surrounded by friends and cherishing honest hopes; and bade a
resolute farewell to the liberty, the comparative youth, the light
step, leaping impulses and secret pleasures, that I had enjoyed in
the disguise of Hyde. I made this choice perhaps with some
unconscious reservation, for I neither gave up the house in Soho,
nor destroyed the clothes of Edward Hyde, which still lay ready in
my cabinet. For two months, however, I was true to my
determination; for two months, I led a life of such severity as I
had never before attained to, and enjoyed the compensations of an
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
