| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: were later seen. There was also that Arkham professor’s body which
had done cannibal things before it had been captured and thrust
unidentified into a madhouse cell at Sefton, where it beat the
walls for sixteen years. Most of the other possibly surviving
results were things less easy to speak of -- for in later years
West’s scientific zeal had degenerated to an unhealthy and fantastic
mania, and he had spent his chief skill in vitalising not entire
human bodies but isolated parts of bodies, or parts joined to
organic matter other than human. It had become fiendishly disgusting
by the time he disappeared; many of the experiments could not
even be hinted at in print. The Great War, through which both
Herbert West: Reanimator |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne: sparkled for one instant two or three eruptive cones, like enormous
dazzling gems. Toward the north the escarpments were lowered by a
depression which would probably have given access to the interior
of the crater.
In passing over the surrounding plains, Barbicane noticed a
great number of less important mountains; and among others a
little ringed one called Guy Lussac, the breadth of which
measured twelve miles.
Toward the south, the plain was very flat, without one
elevation, without one projection. Toward the north, on the
contrary, till where it was bounded by the "Sea of Storms," it
From the Earth to the Moon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: Councillor's visit to the capital.
Kniepp had asked for the address of a goldsmith, and had been
directed to one of the shops which had the best reputation in the
city. He had been in the capital altogether for about twenty-four
hours. He had the manner and appearance of a man suffering under
some terrible blow.
Muller himself was deep in thought as he entered the train to
return to his home, after a visit to the goldsmith in question.
He had a short interview with Chief of Police Bauer, who finally
gave him the golden bullet and the keys to the apartment of the
murdered man. Then the two went out together.
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