| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Unconscious Comedians by Honore de Balzac: o'clock to dress, if she dances in the ballet this evening--as she
will, to-day being Monday. This rat is already an old rat for she is
thirteen years of age. Two years from now that creature may be worth
sixty thousand francs; she will be all or nothing, a great danseuse or
a marcheuse, a celebrated person or a vulgar courtesan. She has worked
hard since she was eight years old. Such as you see her, she is worn
out with fatigue; she exhausted her body this morning in the dancing-
class, she is just leaving a rehearsal where the evolutions are as
complicated as a Chinese puzzle; and she'll go through them again to-
night. The rat is one of the primary elements of the Opera; she is to
the leading danseuse what a junior clerk is to a notary. The rat is--
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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: their smaller and slower quarry on those cyclopean steps. It was
very depressing to reflect that the silent pursuing Gugs would
not be heard at all, but would come very suddenly and shockingly
in the dark upon the climbers. Nor could the traditional fear
of Gugs for ghouls be depended upon in that peculiar place where
the advantages lay so heavily with the Gugs. There was also some
peril from the furtive and venomous ghasts, which frequently hopped
up onto the tower during the sleep hour of the Gugs. If the Gugs
slept long, and the ghasts returned soon from their deed in the
cavern, the scent of the climbers might easily be picked up by
those loathsome and ill-disposed things; in which case it would
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: except to cut him off there.
"I've got my hands full," I said. "I'm much obliged but I couldn't take
on any more work."
"You wouldn't have to do any business with Wolfshiem." Evidently he
thought that I was shying away from the "gonnegtion." mentioned at lunch,
but I assured him he was wrong. He waited a moment longer, hoping I'd
begin a conversation, but I was too absorbed to be responsive, so he went
unwillingly home.
The evening had made me light-headed and happy; I think I walked into a
deep sleep as I entered my front door. So I didn't know whether or not
Gatsby went to Coney Island, or for how many hours he "glanced into
The Great Gatsby |
