| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Silas Marner by George Eliot: whist-table--a choice exasperating to uncle Kimble, who, being
always volatile in sober business hours, became intense and bitter
over cards and brandy, shuffled before his adversary's deal with a
glare of suspicion, and turned up a mean trump-card with an air of
inexpressible disgust, as if in a world where such things could
happen one might as well enter on a course of reckless profligacy.
When the evening had advanced to this pitch of freedom and
enjoyment, it was usual for the servants, the heavy duties of supper
being well over, to get their share of amusement by coming to look
on at the dancing; so that the back regions of the house were left
in solitude.
Silas Marner |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard: 'Is it finished, monsieur?' he asked anxiously; 'quite finished?
Ah, the horrors I have undergone, and the prayers I have uttered!'
'Come out, you little wretch,' I said, for I did not feel amiable;
'it is all over.'
'So, monsieur, then my prayers have prevailed? I emerge,'
and he did.
As we were walking down together to join the others, who were
gathered in a group by the wide entrance to the kraal, which
now resembled a veritable charnel-house, a Masai, who had escaped
so far and been hiding under a bush, suddenly sprang up and charged
furiously at us. Off went Alphonse with a howl of terror, and
Allan Quatermain |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: It was from the
artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know
that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare
notes. As it was, lacking their original letters, I half suspected
the compiler of having asked leading questions, or of having edited
the correspondence in corroboration of what he had latently resolved
to see. That is why I continued to feel that Wilcox, somehow cognizant
of the old data which my uncle had possessed, had been imposing
on the veteran scientist. These responses from esthetes told disturbing
tale. From February 28 to April 2 a large proportion of them had
dreamed very bizarre things, the intensity of the dreams being
Call of Cthulhu |
