| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: Poligraphia, Giambattista Porta's De Furtivis Literarum Notis,
De Vigenere's Traite des Chiffres, Falconer's Cryptomenysis Patefacta,
Davys' and Thicknesse's eighteenth-century treatises, and such
fairly modern authorities as Blair, van Marten and Kluber's script
itself, and in time became convinced that he had to deal with
one of those subtlest and most ingenious of cryptograms, in which
many separate lists of corresponding letters are arranged like
the multiplication table, and the message built up with arbitrary
key-words known only to the initiated. The older authorities seemed
rather more helpful than the newer ones, and Armitage concluded
that the code of the manuscript was one of great antiquity, no
The Dunwich Horror |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: itself may be resolved into three words: ERAT, EST, FUIT."
"Which means--" said D'Artagnan, who began to suspect the truth.
"Which means that I have just been duped-sixty louis for a horse
which by the manner of his gait can do at least five leagues an
hour."
D'Artagnan and Athos laughed aloud.
"My dear D'Artagnan," said Aramis, "don't be too angry with me, I
beg. Necessity has no law; besides, I am the person punished, as
that rascally horsedealer has robbed me of fifty louis, at least.
Ah, you fellows are good managers! You ride on our lackey's
horses, and have your own gallant steeds led along carefully by
The Three Musketeers |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Altar of the Dead by Henry James: Antrim. She smiled at him from the glory of heaven - she brought
the glory down with her to take him. He bowed his head in
submission and at the same moment another wave rolled over him.
Was it the quickening of joy to pain? In the midst of his joy at
any rate he felt his buried face grow hot as with some communicated
knowledge that had the force of a reproach. It suddenly made him
contrast that very rapture with the bliss he had refused to
another. This breath of the passion immortal was all that other
had asked; the descent of Mary Antrim opened his spirit with a
great compunctious throb for the descent of Acton Hague. It was as
if Stransom had read what her eyes said to him.
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