| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad: several, dismounting, ransacked the various outbuildings. The
officer in command, accompanied by two men, walked up to the
front door. All the blinds on that side were down. The officer
told the servant who received him that he wanted to see his
master. He was answered that the master was away from home, which
was perfectly true.
I follow here the tale as told afterward by the servant to my
granduncle's friends and relatives, and as I have heard it
repeated.
On receiving this answer the Cossack officer, who had been
standing in the porch, stepped into the house.
A Personal Record |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: that we were out of college we had to keep together. It was not
easy to find a good opening for two doctors in company, but finally
the influence of the university secured us a practice in Bolton
-- a factory town near Arkham, the seat of the college. The Bolton
Worsted Mills are the largest in the Miskatonic Valley, and their
polyglot employees are never popular as patients with the local
physicians. We chose our house with the greatest care, seizing
at last on a rather run-down cottage near the end of Pond Street;
five numbers from the closest neighbour, and separated from the
local potter’s field by only a stretch of meadow land, bisected
by a narrow neck of the rather dense forest which lies to the
Herbert West: Reanimator |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: their paddles in relays, while we three were rapidly
wearying beneath the constant strain that had been
put upon us.
It was then that Juag called my attention to the rift
in the shore-line which I had thought either a bay or
the mouth of a great river. There I saw moving slowly
out into the sea that which filled my soul with wonder.
CHAPTER XIV
GORE AND DREAMS
It was a two-masted felucca with lateen sails! The
craft was long and low. In it were more than fifty men,
Pellucidar |
