| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: the disorganisation of both college work and municipal health
regulations, he managed to get a recently deceased body smuggled
into the university dissecting-room one night, and in my presence
injected a new modification of his solution. The thing actually
opened its eyes, but only stared at the ceiling with a look of
soul-petrifying horror before collapsing into an inertness from
which nothing could rouse it. West said it was not fresh enough
-- the hot summer air does not favour corpses. That time we were
almost caught before we incinerated the thing, and West doubted
the advisability of repeating his daring misuse of the college
laboratory.
Herbert West: Reanimator |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: which he had ready in his mind, of all he knew and had seen. But the
Emperor smiled and interrupted him.
"How many miles?"
"From where to where, Your Majesty?"
"From Durrenstein to Krems."
"Three and a half miles, Your Majesty."
"The French have abandoned the left bank?"
"According to the scouts the last of them crossed on rafts during
the night."
"Is there sufficient forage in Krems?"
"Forage has not been supplied to the extent..."
War and Peace |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: to that race of men. In Manhattan it is a distinct
race. They are the Caribs of the North -- strong,
artful, self-sufficient, clannish, honorable within the
laws of their race, holding in lenient contempt neigh-
boring tribes who bow to the measure of Society's
tapeline. I refer, of course, to the titled nobility of
sportdom. There is a class which bears as a qualify-
ing adjective the substantive belonging to a wind in-
strument made of a cheap and base metal. But the
tin mines of Cornwall never produced the material
for manufacturing descriptive nomenclature for "Big
The Voice of the City |
