| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: important. His pleas, however, were wholly in vain; for the decision
of Dr. Halsey was inflexible, and the other professors all endorsed
the verdict of their leader. In the radical theory of reanimation
they saw nothing but the immature vagaries of a youthful enthusiast
whose slight form, yellow hair, spectacled blue eyes, and soft
voice gave no hint of the supernormal -- almost diabolical --
power of the cold brain within. I can see him now as he was then
-- and I shiver. He grew sterner of face, but never elderly. And
now Sefton Asylum has had the mishap and West has vanished.
West
clashed disagreeably with Dr. Halsey near the end of our last
Herbert West: Reanimator |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Youth by Joseph Conrad: work.' I said I had to work in every ship I had ever
been in. 'Ah, but this is different, and you gentlemen
out of them big ships; . . . but there! I dare say you
will do. Join to-morrow.'
"I joined to-morrow. It was twenty-two years ago;
and I was just twenty. How time passes! It was one
of the happiest days of my life. Fancy! Second mate
for the first time--a really responsible officer! I wouldn't
have thrown up my new billet for a fortune. The mate
looked me over carefully. He was also an old chap, but
of another stamp. He had a Roman nose, a snow-white,
Youth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: brother's keeper--that you might require his blood at my hands--and
now, now! when it comes! to find you all love, and trust, and
patience--mother, mother, it's more than I can bear!" and he wept
violently.
Mrs. Leigh knew enough of Amyas to know that any burst of this
kind, from his quiet nature, betokened some very fearful struggle;
and the loving creature forgot everything instantly, in the one
desire to soothe him.
And soothe him she did; and home the two went, arm in arm together,
while Ayacanora held fast, like a child, by the skirt of Mrs.
Leigh's cloak. The self-help and daring of the forest nymph had
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