| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: variable.
Briden pushed at the stone in several places without
result. Then Donovan felt over it delicately around the edge,
pressing each point separately as he went. He climbed interminably
along the grotesque stone moulding - that is, one would call it
climbing if the thing was not after all horizontal - and the men
wondered how any door in the universe could be so vast. Then,
very softly and slowly, the acre-great lintel began to give inward
at the top; and they saw that it was balauced
Donovan slid or
somehow propelled himself down or along the jamb and rejoined
Call of Cthulhu |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft: conduct, that would for ever have damned their fame, had they been
innocent, seduced girls. These particularly stood aloof.--Had she
remained with her husband, practicing insincerity, and neglecting
her child to manage an intrigue, she would still have been visited
and respected. If, instead of openly living with her lover, she
could have condescended to call into play a thousand arts, which,
degrading her own mind, might have allowed the people who were not
deceived, to pretend to be so, she would have been caressed and
treated like an honourable woman. "And Brutus* is an honourable
man!" said Mark-Antony with equal sincerity.
* The name in the manuscript is by mistake written Caesar.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: pas votre mere. Elle vous donne toujours de mauvais conseils. Il
ne faut pas l'ecouter.
SALOME. Je n'ecoute pas ma mere. C'est pour mon propre plaisir que
je demande la tete d'Iokanaan dans un bassin d'argent. Vous avez
jure, Herode. N'oubliez pas que vous avez jure.
HERODE. Je le sais. J'ai jure par mes dieux. Je le sais bien.
Mais je vous supplie, Salome, de me demander autre chose. Demandez-
moi la moitie de mon royaume, et je vous la donnerai. Mais ne me
demandez pas ce que vous m'avez demande.
SALOME. Je vous demande la tete d'Iokanaan.
HERODE. Non, non, je ne veux pas.
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