| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The People That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: and then to my pistol.
"They are weapons," I replied, "weapons which kill at a
great distance." I pointed to the women in the pool beneath us.
"With this," I said, tapping my pistol, "I could kill as many
of those women as I cared to, without moving a step from where
we now stand."
He looked his incredulity, but I went on. "And with this"--I
weighed my rifle at the balance in the palm of my right
hand--"I could slay one of those distant warriors." And I waved
my left hand toward the tiny figures of the hunters far to the north.
The fellow laughed. "Do it," he cried derisively, "and then it
The People That Time Forgot |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen: six or eight months. It's of no use my going into details as
to the life that woman led; if you want particulars you can
look at Meyrick's legacy. Those designs were not drawn from
his imagination. She again disappeared, and the people of the
place saw nothing of her till a few months ago. My informant
told me that she had taken some rooms in a house which he
pointed out, and these rooms she was in the habit of visiting
two or three times a week and always at ten in the morning. I
was led to expect that one of these visits would be paid on a
certain day about a week ago, and I accordingly managed to be
on the look-out in company with my cicerone at a quarter to
The Great God Pan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Coxon Fund by Henry James: little flourish of the letter with which I emphasised them that I
instinctively slipped Mr. Pudney's communication into my pocket.
She looked, in her embarrassed annoyance, capable of grabbing it to
send it back to him. I felt, after she had gone, as if I had
almost given her my word I wouldn't deliver the enclosure. The
passionate movement, at any rate, with which, in solitude, I
transferred the whole thing, unopened, from my pocket to a drawer
which I double-locked would have amounted, for an initiated
observer, to some such pledge.
CHAPTER XII
Mrs. Saltram left me drawing my breath more quickly and indeed
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