| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: of this jacket was a secret, but after the
owner's death the garment was ripped open
and found to contain-ground glass! The
third sensation I must, with all due modesty,
(business of bowing) claim for myself.
The Magnet failed to attract after about
forty-eight hours, for a keen-witted reporter
discovered her methods and promptly published
them. The bullet detainer also lasted
only a short time only. When my opening
added a third sensational surprise, one of the
Miracle Mongers and Their Methods |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs: and then to attempt the work of elevating its fallen peoples
to the high estate from which the Great War precipitated
them.
I asked him who was victorious in that war, and he shook his
head sadly as he replied:
"Pan-America, perhaps, and China, with the blacks of
Abyssinia," he said. "Those who did not fight were the only
ones to reap any of the rewards that are supposed to belong
to victory. The combatants reaped naught but annihilation.
You have seen--better than any man you must realize that
there was no victory for any nation embroiled in that
Lost Continent |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: to remain in Arkham during the summer, when only the limited summer-school
classes were held. In the end, though, luck favoured us; for one
day we heard of an almost ideal case in the potter’s field; a
brawny young workman drowned only the morning before in Summer’s
Pond, and buried at the town’s expense without delay or embalming.
That afternoon we found the new grave, and determined to begin
work soon after midnight.
It was a repulsive task that we undertook
in the black small hours, even though we lacked at that time the
special horror of graveyards which later experiences brought to
us. We carried spades and oil dark lanterns, for although electric
Herbert West: Reanimator |
