| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell: may open her eyes soon." Then, seeing the other man, he called out,
"Here, Joe, run for some water, and tell my missis to come
as quick as she can to the Lady Anne."
He then somehow scrambled into the saddle, and with a "Gee up"
and a clap on my sides with both his legs, he started on his journey,
making a little circuit to avoid the dike. He had no whip,
which seemed to trouble him; but my pace soon cured that difficulty,
and he found the best thing he could do was to stick to the saddle
and hold me in, which he did manfully. I shook him as little
as I could help, but once or twice on the rough ground he called out,
"Steady! Woah! Steady!" On the highroad we were all right;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: not to flee for our lives after that; since our conclusions were
now - notwithstanding their wildness - completely fixed, and of
a nature I need not even mention to those who have read my account
as far as this. Perhaps we were mad - for have I not said those
horrible peaks were mountains of madness? But I think I can detect
something of the same spirit - albeit in a less extreme form -
in the men who stalk deadly beasts through African jungles to
photograph them or study their habits. Half paralyzed with terror
though we were, there was nevertheless fanned within us a blazing
flame of awe and curiosity which triumphed in the end.
Of course
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs: a powerful blow to his jaw that sent him reeling back; but
he was at me again in an instant, though in the brief
interim I had time to draw my revolver.
I saw his companion crawling slowly to his feet, and the
others of the party racing down upon me. There was no time
to argue now, other than with the weapons we wore, and so,
as the fellow lunged at me again with the wicked-looking
knife, I covered his heart and pulled the trigger.
Without a sound, he slipped to the earth, and then I turned
the weapon upon the other guard, who was now about to attack
me. He, too, collapsed, and I was alone with the astonished
Lost Continent |
