| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals but nothing
ever came of it, since Dunwich folk are never anxious to call
the outside world's attention to themselves.
About 1923, when
Wilbur was a boy of ten whose mind, voice, stature, and bearded
face gave all the impressions of maturity, a second great siege
of carpentry went on at the old house. It was all inside the sealed
upper part, and from bits of discarded lumber people concluded
that the youth and his grandfather had knocked out all the partitions
and even removed the attic floor, leaving only one vast open void
between the ground storey and the peaked roof. They had torn down
The Dunwich Horror |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: "Stay, monsieur, the matter is not worth so much trouble,"
said Aramis, calmly, sprinkling some sand over the letter he
had just written.
"Suggest a remedy, then, for this evil without a remedy."
"There is only one remedy for you, -- pay."
"But it is very uncertain whether I have the money.
Everything must be exhausted; Belle-Isle is paid for; the
pension has been paid; and money, since the investigation of
the accounts of those who farm the revenue, is scarce.
Besides, admitting that I pay this time, how can I do so on
another occasion? When kings have tasted money, they are
Ten Years Later |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: "After all," suggested Newman, after a silence, "she may be in trouble
about something else."
"If it is something else, then it is something worse," said Mrs. Tristram,
with rich decision.
Newman was silent a while, and seemed lost in meditation.
"Is it possible," he asked at last, "that they do that sort
of thing over here? that helpless women are bullied into marrying
men they hate?"
"Helpless women, all over the world, have a hard time of it,"
said Mrs. Tristram. "There is plenty of bullying everywhere."
"A great deal of that kind of thing goes on in New York,"
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