| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honore de Balzac: lover a cushion which made him fall, and profited by the respite which
this advantage gave to her, to push the button of the spring which
caused the bell to ring. Promptly the mulatto arrived. In a second
Cristemio leaped on De Marsay and held him down with one foot on his
chest, his heel turned towards the throat. De Marsay realized that, if
he struggled, at a single sign from Paquita he would be instantly
crushed.
"Why did you want to kill me, my beloved?" she said. De Marsay made no
reply.
"In what have I angered you?" she asked. "Speak, let us understand
each other."
The Girl with the Golden Eyes |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske: belief in metempsychosis, show that primitive culture has not
arrived at the distinction attained by modern philosophy
between the immortal man and the soulless brute. Still more
direct evidence is furnished by sundry savage customs. The
Kafir who has killed an elephant will cry that he did n't mean
to do it, and, lest the elephant's soul should still seek
vengeance, he will cut off and bury the trunk, so that the
mighty beast may go crippled to the spirit-land. In like
manner, the Samoyeds, after shooting a bear, will gather about
the body offering excuses and laying the blame on the
Russians; and the American redskin will even put the pipe of
Myths and Myth-Makers |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: thick, and of a ridgy substance like that of the cones themselves.
These members were sometimes contracted almost to nothing, and
sometimes extended to any distance up to about ten feet. Terminating
two of them were enormous claws or nippers. At the end of a third
were four red, trumpetlike appendages. The fourth terminated in
an irregular yellowish globe some two feet in diameter and having
three great dark eyes ranged along its central circumference.
Surmounting this head were four slender grey stalks bearing
flower-like appendages, whilst from its nether side dangled eight
greenish antennae or tentacles. The great base of the central
cone was fringed with a rubbery, grey substance which moved the
Shadow out of Time |
