| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Emma by Jane Austen: "Ah! there is no end of the sad consequences of your going to
South End. It does not bear talking of." And for a little while
she hoped he would not talk of it, and that a silent rumination
might suffice to restore him to the relish of his own smooth gruel.
After an interval of some minutes, however, he began with,
"I shall always be very sorry that you went to the sea this autumn,
instead of coming here."
"But why should you be sorry, sir?--I assure you, it did the children
a great deal of good."
"And, moreover, if you must go to the sea, it had better not
have been to South End. South End is an unhealthy place.
Emma |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: parted. After this, twenty minutes' riding brought me to the
entrance of the village, and here the change was great indeed.
Not one of the ordinary dwellers in the place was to be seen:
either they had shut themselves up in their hovels, or, like
Antoine, they had fled to the woods. Their doors were closed,
their windows shuttered. But lounging about the street were a
score of dragoons, in boots and breastplates, whose short-
barrelled muskets, with pouches and bandoliers attached, were
piled near the inn door. In an open space, where there was a gap
in the street, a long row of horses, linked head to head, stood
bending their muzzles over bundles of rough forage; and on all
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: last copy of those inconceivably old Pnakotic Manuscripts made
by waking men in forgotten boreal kingdoms and borne into the
land of dreams when the hairy cannibal Gnophkehs overcame many-templed
Olathoe and slew all the heroes of the land of Lomar. Those manuscripts
he said, told much of the gods, and besides, in Ulthar there were
men who had seen the signs of the gods, and even one old priest
who had scaled a great mountain to behold them dancing by moonlight.
He had failed, though his companion had succeeded and perished
namelessly.
So Randolph Carter thanked the Zoogs, who fluttered
amicably and gave him another gourd of moon-tree wine to take
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
