| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne: Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one. The gentleman
who uttered the cries was evidently a belated Mormon. He was
breathless with running. Happily for him, the station had neither
gates nor barriers. He rushed along the track, jumped on the rear
platform of the train, and fell, exhausted, into one of the seats.
Passepartout, who had been anxiously watching this amateur gymnast,
approached him with lively interest, and learned that he had taken flight
after an unpleasant domestic scene.
When the Mormon had recovered his breath, Passepartout ventured
to ask him politely how many wives he had; for, from the manner
in which he had decamped, it might be thought that he had twenty at least.
Around the World in 80 Days |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: and the crude wooden bridges always seem of dubious safety. When
the road dips again there are stretches of marshland that one
instinctively dislikes, and indeed almost fears at evening when
unseen whippoorwills chatter and the fireflies come out in abnormal
profusion to dance to the raucous, creepily insistent rhythms
of stridently piping bull-frogs. The thin, shining line of the
Miskatonic's upper reaches has an oddly serpent-like suggestion
as it winds close to the feet of the domed hills among which it
rises.
As the hills draw nearer, one heeds their wooded sides
more than their stone-crowned tops. Those sides loom up so darkly
The Dunwich Horror |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: intricacy of the new experiment; an intricacy so vast that he
could trust no hand less delicate than his own. Forbidding me
to touch the body, he first injected a drug in the wrist just
beside the place his needle had punctured when injecting the embalming
compound. This, he said, was to neutralise the compound and release
the system to a normal relaxation so that the reanimating solution
might freely work when injected. Slightly later, when a change
and a gentle tremor seemed to affect the dead limbs; West stuffed
a pillow-like object violently over the twitching face, not withdrawing
it until the corpse appeared quiet and ready for our attempt at
reanimation. The pale enthusiast now applied some last perfunctory
Herbert West: Reanimator |
