| 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: that crystal stream, and at other times he paused amidst the whispering
rushes and gazed at the great dark wood on the farther side, whose
trees came down clear to the water's edge. In former dreams he
had seen quaint lumbering buopoths come shyly out of that wood
to drink, but now he could not glimpse any. Once in a while he
paused to watch a carnivorous fish catch a fishing bird, which
it lured to the water by showing its tempting scales in the sun,
and grasped by the beak with its enormous mouth as the winged
hunter sought to dart down upon it.
Toward evening he mounted
a low grassy rise and saw before him flaming in the sunset the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: this little commodity, partners in that, got a tentacle round the
neck of a specialised manufacturer or so, secured a pull upon
this or that supply of raw material, and so prepared the way for
our second flotation, Domestic Utilities; "Do it," they reordered
it in the city. And then came the reconstruction of Tono-Bungay,
and then "Household services" and the Boom!
That sort of development is not to he told in detail in a novel.
I have, indeed, told much of it elsewhere. It is to be found set
out at length, painfully at length, in my uncle's examination and
mine in the bankruptcy proceedings, and in my own various
statements after his death. Some people know everything in that
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: her taut muscles relaxed.
"What makes Ferguson think Philip guilty?" demanded Barbara.
"It is known that he and Jimmie were not on good terms," replied
Kent. "Then Rochester's disappearance after Jimmie's death lends
color to the theory."
"Has Philip really disappeared?" asked Helen. "You showed me a
telegram -"
"Apparently the telegram was a fake," admitted Kent. "The Cleveland
police report that he is not at the address given in the telegram."
"But who could have an object in sending such a telegram?" asked
Barbara slowly.
The Red Seal |
