| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: him with his spear and told him that he had selected the
girl for his own property--that he would buy her from the
Mahars as soon as they reached Phutra. Phutra, it seemed,
was the city of our destination.
After passing over the first chain of mountains we skirted
a salt sea, upon whose bosom swam countless horrid things.
Seal-like creatures there were with long necks stretching
ten and more feet above their enormous bodies and whose
snake heads were split with gaping mouths bristling
with countless fangs. There were huge tortoises too,
paddling about among these other reptiles, which Perry
At the Earth's Core |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard: not unmixed with awe. He was dressed after the same fashion
as the man we first met, except that his shirt was not made of
brown cloth, but of pure white linen hemmed with purple. The
kilt, however, was identical, and so were the thick rings of
gold around the arm and beneath the left knee. The rowers wore
only a kilt, their bodies being naked to the waist. Good took
off his hat to the old gentleman with an extra flourish, and
inquired after his health in the purest English, to which he
replied by laying the first two fingers of his right hand horizontally
across his lips and holding them there for a moment, which we
took as his method of salutation. Then he also addressed some
Allan Quatermain |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: bat-wings over the piles of coffins in the tombs of Christchurch
Cemetery; yet for me there is a greater horror in that time --
a horror known to me alone now that Herbert West has disappeared.
West and I were doing post-graduate work in summer classes at
the medical school of Miskatonic University, and my friend had
attained a wide notoriety because of his experiments leading toward
the revivification of the dead. After the scientific slaughter
of uncounted small animals the freakish work had ostensibly stopped
by order of our sceptical dean, Dr. Allan Halsey; though West
had continued to perform certain secret tests in his dingy boarding-house
room, and had on one terrible and unforgettable occasion taken
Herbert West: Reanimator |
