| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: disappeared in the dusk without my getting more than a glimpse of
his face. I had a vague impression of unfamiliar features and of
a sort of cap with a visor. Then he was gone.
I went to the lodge and rapped. It required two or three
poundings to bring Thomas to the door, and he opened it only an
inch or so.
"Where is Warner?" I asked.
"I--I think he's in bed, ma'm."
"Get him up," I said, "and for goodness' sake open the door,
Thomas. I'll wait for Warner."
"It's kind o' close in here, ma'm," he said, obeying gingerly,
The Circular Staircase |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: between the new settlers and the natives on the ground of a common
faith. Let us believe, too, that the influence of woman was not
wanting in the good work--that the story of St. Margaret and Malcolm
Canmore was repeated, though inversely, in the case of many a
heathen Scandinavian jarl, who, marrying the princely daughter of
some Scottish chieftain, found in her creed at last something more
precious than herself; while his brother or his cousin became, at
Dublin or Wexford or Waterford, the husband of some saffron-robed
Irish princess, "fair as an elf," as the old saying was; some
"maiden of the three transcendent hues," of whom the old book of
Linane says:
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: possessed any sense or relevancy. At that moment, as I say, I
was elated with the conviction that the one great goal had been
attained; and that for the first time a reanimated corpse had
uttered distinct words impelled by actual reason. In the next
moment there was no doubt about the triumph; no doubt that the
solution had truly accomplished, at least temporarily, its full
mission of restoring rational and articulate life to the dead.
But in that triumph there came to me the greatest of all horrors
-- not horror of the thing that spoke, but of the deed that I
had witnessed and of the man with whom my professional fortunes
were joined.
Herbert West: Reanimator |
