| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: Wilbur would have let in if he'd lived longer. You'll never know
what the world escaped. Now we've only this one thing to fight,
and it can't multiply. It can, though, do a lot of harm; so we
mustn't hesitate to rid the community of it.
'We must follow
it - and the way to begin is to go to the place that has just
been wrecked. Let somebody lead the way - I don't know your roads
very well, but I've an idea there might be a shorter cut across
lots. How about it?'
The men shuffled about a moment, and then
Earl Sawyer spoke softly, pointing with a grimy finger through
The Dunwich Horror |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac: "for she has a lover."
"For a man who thinks of nothing but his vine-stocks and poles, he has
some spunk," said Lousteau.
"Well, he must have something!" replied Bianchon.
Madame de la Baudraye, the only person who could hear Bianchon's
remark, laughed so knowingly, and at the same time so bitterly, that
the physician could guess the mystery of this woman's life; her
premature wrinkles had been puzzling him all day.
But Dinah did not guess, on her part, the ominous prophecy contained
for her in her husband's little speech, which her kind old Abbe Duret,
if he had been alive, would not have failed to elucidate. Little La
The Muse of the Department |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Adieu by Honore de Balzac: slowly towards him across the grass. When she reached a tree about ten
feet distant, against which she leaned, Monsieur Fanjat said to the
colonel in a low voice,--
"Take out, adroitly, from my right hand pocket some lumps of sugar you
will feel there. Show them to her, and she will come to us. I will
renounce in your favor my sole means of giving her pleasure. With
sugar, which she passionately loves, you will accustom her to approach
you, and to know you again."
"When she was a woman," said Philippe, sadly, "she had no taste for
sweet things."
When the colonel showed her the lump of sugar, holding it between the
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