| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe: she has tried to entertain ladies in your condition several times,
but she could not secure the parish; and besides, she is not such a
nice lady as you take her to be; however, since you are a-going,
you shall not meddle with her, but I'll see you are a little better
looked after while you are here than I think you are, and it shall
not cost you the more neither.'
I did not understand her at all; however, I thanked her, and so
we parted. The next morning she sent me a chicken roasted
and hot, and a pint bottle of sherry, and ordered the maid to
tell me that she was to wait on me every day as long as I stayed
there.
Moll Flanders |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: E-Thas had come was disposed of the jeddak signed him to remain.
"From the position of an obscure warrior I have elevated you,
E-Thas, to the honors of a chief. Within the confines of the
palace your word is second only to mine. You are not loved for
this, E-Thas, and should another jeddak ascend the throne of
Manator what would become of you, whose enemies are among the
most powerful of Manator?"
"Speak not of it, O-Tar," begged E-Thas. "These last few days I
have thought upon it much and I would forget it; but I have
sought to appease the wrath of. my worst enemies. I have been
very kind and indulgent with them."
The Chessmen of Mars |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: notes had not sudden death seized him.
My knowledge of the thing
began in the winter of 1926-27 with the death of my great-uncle,
George Gammell Angell, Professor Emeritus of Semitic Languages
in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Professor Angell
was widely known as an authority on ancient inscriptions, and
had frequently been resorted to by the heads of prominent museums;
so that his passing at the age of ninety-two may be recalled by
many. Locally, interest was intensified by the obscurity of the
cause of death. The professor had been stricken whilst returning
from the Newport boat; falling suddenly; as witnesses said, after
Call of Cthulhu |
