| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: left! Tell Rice and Morgan we must do something - it's a blind
business, but I know how to make the powder... It hasn't been
fed since the second of August, when Wilbur came here to his death,
and at that rate...'
But Armitage had a sound physique despite
his seventy-three years, and slept off his disorder that night
without developing any real fever. He woke late Friday, clear
of head, though sober with a gnawing fear and tremendous sense
of responsibility. Saturday afternoon he felt able to go over
to the library and summon Rice and Morgan for a conference, and
the rest of that day and evening the three men tortured their
The Dunwich Horror |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Schoolmistress and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov: chimes floated into the room with a whiff of fresh spring air.
The booming of the bells mingled with the rumble of carriages,
and above the chaos of sounds rose the brisk tenor tones
of the nearest church and a loud shrill laugh.
"What a lot of people!" sighed Nevyrazimov, looking down into the
street, where shadows of men flitted one after another by the
illumination lamps. "They're all hurrying to the midnight
service. . . . Our fellows have had a drink by now, you may be
sure, and are strolling about the town. What a lot of laughter,
what a lot of talk! I'm the only unlucky one, to have to sit here
on such a day: And I have to do it every year!"
The Schoolmistress and Other Stories |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On Revenues by Xenophon: under orders to go through gymnastic training will devote themselves
with a new zeal to the details of the training school, now that they
will receive a larger maintenance whilst[64] under the orders of the
trainer in the torch race. So again those on garrison duty in the
various fortresses, those enrolled as peltasts, or again as frontier
police to protect the rural districts, one and all will carry out
their respective duties more ardently when the maintenance[64]
appropriate to these several functions is duly forthcoming.
[64] I follow Zurborg in omitting {e}. If {e} is to stand, transl.
"than they get whilst supplied by the gymnasiarch in the torch
race," or "whilst exercising the office of gymnasiarchs
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