| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift: I shall add but one prediction more, and that in mystical terms,
which shall be included in a verse out of Virgil,
Alter erit jam Tethys, & altera quae vehat Argo.
Delectos heroas.
Upon the 25th day of this month, the fulfilling of this
prediction will be manifest to every body.
This is the farthest I have proceeded in my calculations for the
present year. I do not pretend, that these are all the great
events which will happen in this period, but that those I have
set down will infallibly come to pass. It will perhaps still be
objected, why I have not spoke more particularly of affairs at
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: step up whar he'd heerd it fust an' look at the graound. It was
all mud an' water, an' the sky was dark, an' the rain was wipin'
aout all tracks abaout as fast as could be; but beginnin' at the
glen maouth, whar the trees hed moved, they was still some o'
them awful prints big as bar'ls like he seen Monday.'
At this
point the first excited speaker interrupted.
'But that ain't
the trouble naow - that was only the start. Zeb here was callin'
folks up an' everybody was a-listenin' in when a call from Seth
Bishop's cut in. His haousekeeper Sally was carryin' on fit to
The Dunwich Horror |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Land that Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: all sat down to a good breakfast. I could not but wonder at Lys'
absence from the table, for she had always been one of the
earliest risers in camp; so about nine o'clock, becoming
apprehensive lest she might be indisposed, I went to the door of
her room and knocked. I received no response, though I finally
pounded with all my strength; then I turned the knob and entered,
only to find that she was not there. Her bed had been occupied,
and her clothing lay where she had placed it the previous night
upon retiring; but Lys was gone. To say that I was distracted
with terror would be to put it mildly. Though I knew she could
not be in camp, I searched every square inch of the compound and
The Land that Time Forgot |
