| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: sometimes. Those rockets, last night, eh? I wished I had bitten
my tongue out before I told you about our first gig. But I was
taken unawares. Wasn't I? I put it to you: wasn't I? And so I
told her when she asked me what passed between you and me on
board this brig, not twenty-four hours ago. Things look different
now, all of a sudden. Enough to scare a woman, but she is the
best man of them all on board. The others are fairly off the
chump because it's a bit dark and something has happened they
ain't used to. But she has something on her mind. I can't make
her out!" He paused, wriggled his shoulders slightly--"No more
than I can make you out," he added.
The Rescue |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: from Aylesbury that morning in response to the first telephone
reports of the Frye tragedy, decided to seek out the officers
and compare notes as far as practicable. This, however, they found
more easily planned than performed; since no sign of the party
could be found in any direction. There had been five of them in
a car, but now the car stood empty near the ruins in the Frye
yard. The natives, all of whom had talked with the policemen,
seemed at first as perplexed as Armitage and his companions. Then
old Sam Hutchins thought of something and turned pale, nudging
Fred Farr and pointing to the dank, deep hollow that yawned close
by.
The Dunwich Horror |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Under the Andes by Rex Stout: outraged, when he had finished, "you are annoying. Little Chavot
amuses me. You are aware that I never refuse myself anything which
I consider necessary to my amusement, and just now I find you very
dull."
And the noble duke, conquered by that glance of fire and those
terrible words, had retired with humble apologies, after receiving
a gracious permission to call on the following day!
In short, Desiree was irresistible; the subjection of the Inca
king was but another of her triumphs, and not the most remarkable.
And then I looked at Harry, and was aware of a new danger. He
was glaring at the Inca with eyes which told their own story of the
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