| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells: floor above floor overhead between him and the sky.
The men worked in silence under the supervision of
two of the Labour Police; their feet made a hollow
thunder on the planks along which they went to and
fro. And as he looked at this scene, some hidden
voice in the darkness began to sing.
"Stop that!" shouted one of the policemen, but the
order was disobeyed, and first one and then all the
white-stained men who were working there had taken
up the beating refrain, singing it defiantly, the Song
of the Revolt. The feet upon the planks thundered
When the Sleeper Wakes |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac: feeling which stirred the young man's soul; she heard as it were the
last breathings of his conscience. She laid down the letter--to her so
full of love--and began smilingly to watch her sleeping cousin; the
fresh illusions of life were still, for her at least, upon his face;
she vowed to herself to love him always. Then she cast her eyes on the
other letter, without attaching much importance to this second
indiscretion; and though she read it, it was only to obtain new proofs
of the noble qualities which, like all women, she attributed to the
man her heart had chosen.
My dear Alphonse,--When you receive this letter I shall be without
friends; but let me assure you that while I doubt the friendship
Eugenie Grandet |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: was actually simple and trifling, I am none the less reluctant
to tell of it because of what it implied. It was a rough leveling
of the debris, upon which several small objects lay carelessly
scattered, and at one corner of which a considerable amount of
gasoline must have been spilled lately enough to leave a strong
odor even at this extreme superplateau altitude. In other words,
it could not be other than a sort of camp - a camp made by questing
beings who, like us, had been turned back by the unexpectedly
choked way to the abyss.
Let me be plain. The scattered objects
were, so far as substance was concerned, all from Lake�s camp;
At the Mountains of Madness |
