| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: collection of some kind--birds' eggs or something that's supposed
to be curious. I bet it's nothing to my clients!'
'What a lark it would be to play billy with the labels!' chuckled
Mr Wickham. 'By George, here's a tack-hammer! We might send all
these things skipping about the premises like what's-his-name!'
At this moment, the guard, surprised by the sound of voices,
opened the door of his little cabin.
'You had best step in here, gentlemen,' said he, when he had
heard their story.
'Won't you come, Wickham?' asked Michael.
'Catch me--I want to travel in a van,' replied the youth.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Oakdale Affair by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the end of the hall with its suggestion of safety in the
door which might be closed against the horrors of the
hall and the Stygian gloom below stairs.
The Oskaloosa Kid was staggering ahead of him,
scarce able to hold his body erect upon his shaking
knees--his gait seemed pitifully slow to the unarmed
man carrying the unconscious girl and listening to the
chain dragging ever nearer and nearer behind; but at
last they reached the doorway and passed through it
into the room.
"Close the door," directed Bridge as he crossed toward
The Oakdale Affair |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: the foothills, and the plains below them were a veritable network
of connected caverns and galleries. Many graphic sculptures told
of explorations deep underground, and of the final discovery of
the Stygian sunless sea that lurked at earth’s bowels.
This
vast nighted gulf had undoubtedly been worn by the great river
which flowed down from the nameless and horrible westward mountains,
and which had formerly turned at the base of the Old Ones’ range
and flowed beside that chain into the Indian Ocean between Budd
and Totten Lands on Wilkes’s coast line. Little by little it had
eaten away the limestone hill base at its turning, till at last
At the Mountains of Madness |
