| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: while I am away."
A week later Marguerite was settled in her country house, and I
was installed at Point du Jour.
Then began an existence which I shall have some difficulty in
describing to you. At first Marguerite could not break entirely
with her former habits, and, as the house was always en fete, all
the women whom she knew came to see her. For a whole month there
was not a day when Marguerite had not eight or ten people to
meals. Prudence, on her side, brought down all the people she
knew, and did the honours of the house as if the house belonged
to her.
Camille |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: but the captain apologized for their fears, saying that the ship
was about to pass over the weedy walls and broken columns of a
sunken city too old for memory, and that when the water was clear
one could see so many moving shadows in that deep place that simple
folk disliked it. He admitted, moreover, that many ships had been
lost in that part of the sea; having been hailed when quite close
to it, but never seen again.
That night the moon was very bright,
and one could see a great way down in the water. There was so
little wind that the ship could not move much, and the ocean was
very calm. Looking over the rail Carter saw many fathoms deep
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: were broken and the red men had burst into the chamber.
The fight within that room, had it had but a competent
chronicler, would go down in the annals of Barsoom as a
historic memorial to the grim ferocity of her warlike people.
Five hundred men fought there that day, the black men against
the red. No man asked quarter or gave it. As though by
common assent they fought, as though to determine once
and for all their right to live, in accordance with the law of
the survival of the fittest.
I think we all knew that upon the outcome of this battle
would hinge for ever the relative positions of these two
The Gods of Mars |
