| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: the injection, but we had learned that an ordinary natural life
would not respond to the action. To establish the artificial motion,
natural life must be extinct -- the specimens must be very fresh,
but genuinely dead.
The awesome quest had begun when West and
I were students at the Miskatonic University Medical School in
Arkham, vividly conscious for the first time of the thoroughly
mechanical nature of life. That was seven years before, but West
looked scarcely a day older now -- he was small, blond, clean-shaven,
soft-voiced, and spectacled, with only an occasional flash of
a cold blue eye to tell of the hardening and growing fanaticism
Herbert West: Reanimator |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gambara by Honore de Balzac: simplicity--the nightingale after a storm. Thus the grand leading idea
of the whole is worked out in the details; for what could be more
perfectly in contrast with the tumult of devils tossing in the pit
than that wonderful air given to Alice? '/Quand j'ai quitte la
Normandie/.'
"The golden thread of melody flows on, side by side with the mighty
harmony, like a heavenly hope; it is embroidered on it, and with what
marvelous skill! Genius never lets go of the science that guides it.
Here Alice's song is in B flat leading into F sharp, the key of the
demon's chorus. Do you hear the tremolo in the orchestra? The host of
devils clamor for Robert.
Gambara |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac: Wallenrod as much as she loved him, and that is saying a good deal;
but when a Provencal is moved to enthusiasm all his feelings and
attachments are genuine and natural. And how could he fail to adore
that blonde beauty, escaping, as it were, from the canvas of Durer,
gifted with an angelic nature and endowed with Frankfort wealth? The
pair had four children, of whom only two daughters survived at the
time when he poured his griefs into the Breton's heart. Dumay loved
these little ones without having seen them, solely through the
sympathy so well described by Charlet, which makes a soldier the
father of every child. The eldest, named Bettina Caroline, was born in
1805; the other, Marie Modeste, in 1808. The unfortunate lieutenant-
Modeste Mignon |
