| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: "Yes, that's the best plan," said Bickley, shortly, after which
the conversation came to an end.
All that day and the next I watched and waited in vain for the
coming of Yva, but no Yva appeared. I even went as far as the
sepulchre, but it was as empty as were the two crystal coffins,
and after waiting a while I returned. Although I did not say so
to Bickley, to me it was evident that Oro, as he had said, was
determined to cut off all communication between us.
The second day drew to its close. Our simple preparations were
complete. They consisted mainly in making ready our hurricane
lamps and packing up a little food, enough to keep us for three
When the World Shook |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen: fine contempt for published literature; the most ghostly story
ceased to interest him if it happened to be printed; his sole
pleasure was in the reading, compiling, and rearranging what he
called his "Memoirs to prove the Existence of the Devil," and
engaged in this pursuit the evening seemed to fly and the night
appeared too short.
On one particular evening, an ugly December night,
black with fog, and raw with frost, Clarke hurried over his
dinner, and scarcely deigned to observe his customary ritual of
taking up the paper and laying it down again. He paced two or
three times up and down the room, and opened the bureau, stood
The Great God Pan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: and at others that it was wholly incompatible with it.
The general, meanwhile, though offended every morning by
Frederick's remissness in writing, was free from any real
anxiety about him, and had no more pressing solicitude
than that of making Miss Morland's time at Northanger
pass pleasantly. He often expressed his uneasiness on
this head, feared the sameness of every day's society
and employments would disgust her with the place,
wished the Lady Frasers had been in the country,
talked every now and then of having a large party
to dinner, and once or twice began even to calculate
Northanger Abbey |
