| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: 1926 the poor creature complained to Mamie Bishop of being afraid
of him.
'They's more abaout him as I knows than I kin tell ye,
Mamie,' she said, 'an' naowadays they's more nor what I know myself.
I vaow afur Gawd, I dun't know what he wants nor what he's a-tryin'
to dew.'
That Hallowe'en the hill noises sounded louder than
ever, and fire burned on Sentinel Hill as usual; but people paid
more attention to the rhythmical screaming of vast flocks of unnaturally
belated whippoorwills which seemed to be assembled near the unlighted
Whateley farmhouse. After midnight their shrill notes burst into
The Dunwich Horror |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: marry Penelope; he did not so much care about that; what he
wanted was something quite different, and Jove has not
vouchsafed it to him; he wanted to kill your son and to be chief
man in Ithaca. Now, therefore, that he has met the death which
was his due, spare the lives of your people. We will make
everything good among ourselves, and pay you in full for all
that we have eaten and drunk. Each one of us shall pay you a
fine worth twenty oxen, and we will keep on giving you gold and
bronze till your heart is softened. Until we have done this no
one can complain of your being enraged against us."
Ulysses again glared at him and said, "Though you should give me
The Odyssey |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Man of Business by Honore de Balzac: sir. I was there myself--I was wounded indeed, I won my Cross on that
glorious day.'
"And so from one thing to another the two drifted wrecks of the Empire
struck up an acquaintance. Little Croizeau was attached to the Empire
through his connection with Napoleon's sisters. He had been their
coach-builder, and had frequently dunned them for money; so he gave
out that he 'had had relations with the Imperial family.' Maxime, duly
informed by Antonia of the 'nice old man's' proposals (for so the aunt
called Croizeau), wished to see him. Cerizet's declaration of war had
so far taken effect that he of the yellow kid gloves was studying the
position of every piece, however insignificant, upon the board; and it
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