| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Poems by T. S. Eliot: Dropping from fingers of surf.
I looked for the head of Mr. Apollinax rolling under a chair
Or grinning over a screen
With seaweed in its hair.
I heard the beat of centaur's hoofs over the hard turf
As his dry and passionate talk devoured the afternoon.
"He is a charming man"--"But after all what did he mean?"--
"His pointed ears ... He must be unbalanced,"--
"There was something he said that I might have challenged."
Of dowager Mrs. Phlaccus, and Professor and Mrs. Cheetah
I remember a slice of lemon, and a bitten macaroon.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber: they were seated in the dining car, "that we never have at
home, shall we?"
"Oh, yes!" replied Fanny in a whisper of excitement.
"Something--something queer, and different, and not so very
healthy!"
They had oysters (a New Yorker would have sniffed at them),
and chicken potpie, and asparagus, and ice cream. If that
doesn't prove Mrs. Brandeis was game, I should like to know
what could! They stopped at the Windsor-Clifton, because it
was quieter and less expensive than the Palmer House, though
quite as full of red plush and walnut. Besides, she had
Fanny Herself |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: hill street leading up from an ancient waterfront swarming with
foreign mongrels, after a careless push from a Negro sailor. I
did not forget the mixed blood and marine pursuits of the cult-members
in Louisiana, and would not be surprised to learn of secret methods
and rites and beliefs. Legrasse and his men, it is true, have
been let alone; but in Norway a certain seaman who saw things
is dead. Might not the deeper inquiries of my uncle after encountering
the sculptor's data have come to sinister ears?. I think Professor
Angell died because he knew too much, or because he was likely
to learn too much. Whether I shall go as he did remains to be
seen, for I have learned much now.
Call of Cthulhu |
