| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: with full daemoniac fury upon the town. Though not as yet licenced
physicians, we now had our degrees, and were pressed frantically
into public service as the numbers of the stricken grew. The situation
was almost past management, and deaths ensued too frequently for
the local undertakers fully to handle. Burials without embalming
were made in rapid succession, and even the Christchurch Cemetery
receiving tomb was crammed with coffins of the unembalmed dead.
This circumstance was not without effect on West, who thought
often of the irony of the situation -- so many fresh specimens,
yet none for his persecuted researches! We were frightfully overworked,
and the terrific mental and nervous strain made my friend brood
Herbert West: Reanimator |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: nous fimes encore une bonne etape de vie intellectuelle, morale et
philosophique. Je crois qu'il me rendait deja tout ce que
j'eprouvais de sympathie et d'estime, et que je ne fus pas pour
rien dans son retour a Paris.
Chose singuliere! nous nous etions attaches l'un a l'autre par les
sous-entendus bien plus que par la matiere de nos conversations. A
vrai dire, nous etions presque toujours en discussion; et il nous
arrivait de nous rire au nez l'un et l'autre pendant des heures,
tant nous nous etonnions reciproquement de la diversite de nos
points de vue. Je le trouvais si Anglais, et il me trouvais si
Francais! Il etait si franchement revolte de certaines choses
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: as we were to each other, shoulder touching shoulder almost.
"So I asked to speak to the old man. He always seemed
very sick when he came to see me--as if he could not look
me in the face. You know, that foresail saved the ship.
She was too deep to have run long under bare poles.
And it was I that managed to set it for him. Anyway, he came.
When I had him in my cabin--he stood by the door looking
at me as if I had the halter round my neck already--
I asked him right away to leave my cabin door unlocked
at night while the ship was going through Sunda Straits.
There would be the Java coast within two or three miles,
The Secret Sharer |
