| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: making good progress when held up by the Alert on March 22nd,
and I could feel the mate's regret as he wrote of her bombardment
and sinking. Of the swarthy cult-fiends on the Alert he speaks
with significant horror. There was some peculiarly abominable
quality about them which made their destruction seem almost a
duty, and Johansen shews ingenuous wonder at the charge of ruthlessness
brought against his party during the proceedings of the court
of inquiry. Then, driven ahead by curiosity in their captured
yacht under Johansen's command, the men sight a great stone pillar
sticking out of the sea, and in S. Latitude 47°9', W. Longitude
l23°43', come upon a coastline of mingled mud, ooze, and weedy
Call of Cthulhu |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be
married to another man.
ROM 7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by
the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him
who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
ROM 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were
by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
ROM 7:6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein
we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the
oldness of the letter.
ROM 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: for your letters, sir," explained the young man.
"He expects to take her up the river the day after tomorrow."
After thus overwhelming us with the extent of his information
he slipped out of the cabin. The mate observed regretfully
that he "could not account for that young fellow's whims."
What prevented him telling us all about it at once,
he wanted to know.
I detained him as he was making a move. For the last two days the crew had
had plenty of hard work, and the night before they had very little sleep.
I felt painfully that I--a stranger--was doing something unusual when I
directed him to let all hands turn in without setting an anchor watch.
The Secret Sharer |
