| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: a great avenue had been gouged in the precipice-hanging underbrush.
It was as though a house, launched by an avalanche, had slid down
through the tangled growths of the almost vertical slope. From
below no sound came, but only a distant, undefinable foetor; and
it is not to be wondered at that the men preferred to stay on
the edge and argue, rather than descend and beard the unknown
Cyclopean horror in its lair. Three dogs that were with the party
had barked furiously at first, but seemed cowed and reluctant
when near the glen. Someone telephoned the news to the Aylesbury
Transcript; but the editor, accustomed to wild tales from Dunwich,
did no more than concoct a humorous paragraph about it; an item
The Dunwich Horror |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: gave her bronco the spur.
When Collins again found conversation practicable, the Rocking
Chair, a white adobe huddle in the moonlight, lay peacefully
beneath them in the alley.
"It's a right quaint old ranch, and it's seen a heap of
rough-and-tumble life in its day. If those old adobe bricks could
tell stories, I expect they could put some of these romances out
of business." Miss Mackenzie's covert glance questioned
suspiciously what this diversion might mean.
"All this country's interesting. Take Tucson now that burg is
loaded to the roofs with live stories. It's an all-right business
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: doesn't make speeches and professions at all - he isn't
ridiculous."
"I'm afraid you consider then that I am."
"No, I don't" - she spoke it rather shortly. And then she added:
"He understands - understands everything."
The young man was on the point of saying jocosely: "And I don't -
is that it?" But these words, in time, changed themselves to
others slightly less trivial: "Do you suppose he understands his
wife?"
Miss Fancourt made no direct answer, but after a moment's
hesitation put it: "Isn't she charming?"
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