| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: by two on their knees with extended forelegs, awaiting the approach
of the ghouls one by one. As each ghoul reached the pair of night-gaunts
to which he was assigned, he was taken up and borne away into
the blackness; till at last the whole throng had vanished save
for Carter, Pickman, and the other chiefs, and a few pairs of
night-gaunts. Pickman explained that night-gaunts are the advance
guard and battle steeds of the ghouls, and that the army was issuing
forth to Sarkomand to deal with the moonbeasts. Then Carter and
the ghoulish chiefs approached the waiting bearers and were taken
up by the damp, slippery paws. Another moment and all were whirling
in wind and darkness; endlessly up, up, up to the gate of the
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: his house in Redriff, made a small purchase of land, with a
convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native
country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his
neighbours.
Although Mr. Gulliver was born in Nottinghamshire, where his
father dwelt, yet I have heard him say his family came from
Oxfordshire; to confirm which, I have observed in the churchyard
at Banbury in that county, several tombs and monuments of the
Gullivers.
Before he quitted Redriff, he left the custody of the following
papers in my hands, with the liberty to dispose of them as I
Gulliver's Travels |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson: house from the heirs of a celebrated surgeon; and his own tastes
being rather chemical than anatomical, had changed the destination
of the block at the bottom of the garden. It was the first time
that the lawyer had been received in that part of his friend's
quarters; and he eyed the dingy, windowless structure with
curiosity, and gazed round with a distasteful sense of strangeness
as he crossed the theatre, once crowded with eager students and
now lying gaunt and silent, the tables laden with chemical
apparatus, the floor strewn with crates and littered with packing
straw, and the light falling dimly through the foggy cupola. At
the further end, a flight of stairs mounted to a door covered with
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
