| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: full and terrifying consciousness with eyes dilated at the memory
of its last scene on earth, threw out its frantic hands in a life
and death struggle with the air, and suddenly collapsing into
a second and final dissolution from which there could be no return,
screamed out the cry that will ring eternally in my aching brain:
"Help! Keep off, you cursed little tow-head fiend -- keep that
damned needle away from me!"
V. The Horror From the Shadows
Published
June 1922 in Home Brew Vol. 1, No. 5, p. 45-50.
Many men have
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lin McLean by Owen Wister: rattling between them. "Where's your hearse, Jerky?" asked Chalkeye.
"Have her round in a minute," said the cowboy, and galloped away with
three or four others
"Turruble lonesome coffin, all the same," repeated the Doughie. And they
surveyed the box that had once held some soldier.
"She did like fixin's," said Limber Jim.
"Fixin's!" said Toothpick Kid. "That's easy."
While some six of them, with Chalkeye, bore the light, half-rotted coffin
into the room, many followed Toothpick Kid to the post-trader's store.
Breaking in here, they found men sleeping on the counters. These had been
able to find no other beds in Drybone, and lay as they had stretched
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: German composition that does demand association and the support
of pride and training before dangers can be faced. The Germans
are social and methodical, the French and English are by
comparison chaotic and instinctive; perhaps the very readiness
for a conscious orderliness that makes the German so formidable
upon the ground, so thorough and fore-seeking, makes him slow and
unsure in the air. At any rate the experiences of this war have
seemed to carry out this hypothesis. The German aviators will
not as a class stand up to those of the Allies. They are not
nimble in the air. Such champions as they have produced have
been men of one trick; one of their great men, Immelmann--he was
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