| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: the terrifying line of more than Himalayan peaks beyond them.
At length Ropes - the student who had relieved McTighe at the
controls - began to head downward toward the left-hand dark spot
whose size marked it as the camp. As he did so, McTighe sent out
the last uncensored wireless message the world was to receive
from our expedition.
Everyone, of course, has read the brief
and unsatisfying bulletins of the rest of our antarctic sojourn.
Some hours after our landing we sent a guarded report of the tragedy
we found, and reluctantly announced the wiping out of the whole
Lake party by the frightful wind of the preceding day, or of the
At the Mountains of Madness |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde: life.
LADY CHILTERN. Robert, if they love each other, why should they not
be married?
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN. Arthur cannot bring Mabel the love that she
deserves.
LORD GORING. What reason have you for saying that?
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN. [After a pause.] Do you really require me to
tell you?
LORD GORING. Certainly I do.
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN. As you choose. When I called on you yesterday
evening I found Mrs. Cheveley concealed in your rooms. It was
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: boldly in. But after awhile they stopped, and wondered, for
there stood a great city on the shore, and temples and walls
and gardens, and castles high in air upon the cliffs. And on
either side they saw a harbour, with a narrow mouth, but wide
within; and black ships without number, high and dry upon the
shore.
Then Ancaios, the wise helmsman, spoke, 'What new wonder is
this? I know all isles, and harbours, and the windings of
all seas; and this should be Corcyra, where a few wild goat-
herds dwell. But whence come these new harbours and vast
works of polished stone?'
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