| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Letters of Two Brides by Honore de Balzac: will harmonize!
I have been pondering alone, seated beneath a rock in my park, and the
fruit of my pondering is that love in marriage is a happy accident on
which it is impossible to base a universal law. My Aveyron philosopher
is right in looking on the family as the only possible unit in
society, and in placing woman in subjection to the family, as she has
been in all ages. The solution of this great--for us almost awful--
question lies in our first child. For this reason, I would gladly be a
mother, were it only to supply food for the consuming energy of my
soul.
Louis' temper remains as perfect as ever; his love is of the active,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Emma by Jane Austen: by some attack of Mrs. Churchill that he was prevented coming.--
Emma looked at Harriet while the point was under consideration;
she behaved very well, and betrayed no emotion.
The cold repast was over, and the party were to go out once more
to see what had not yet been seen, the old Abbey fish-ponds;
perhaps get as far as the clover, which was to be begun cutting
on the morrow, or, at any rate, have the pleasure of being hot,
and growing cool again.--Mr. Woodhouse, who had already taken
his little round in the highest part of the gardens, where no
damps from the river were imagined even by him, stirred no more;
and his daughter resolved to remain with him, that Mrs. Weston
Emma |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: thousands - perhaps millions - of years it had brooded there amidst
the blasts of a bleak upland. "Corona Mundi - Roof of the World
- " All sorts of fantastic phrases sprang to our lips as we looked
dizzily down at the unbelievable spectacle. I thought again of
the eldritch primal myths that had so persistently haunted me
since my first sight of this dead antarctic world - of the demoniac
plateau of Leng, of the Mi-Go, or abominable Snow Men of the Himalayas,
of the Pnakotic Manuscripts with their prehuman implications,
of the Cthulhu cult, of the Necronomicon, and of the Hyperborean
legends of formless Tsathoggua and the worse than formless star
spawn associated with that semientity.
At the Mountains of Madness |
