| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: of conceivable yet virtually impossible eventualities he often
shivered beneath his usual stolidity.
West had soon learned
that absolute freshness was the prime requisite for useful specimens,
and had accordingly resorted to frightful and unnatural expedients
in body-snatching. In college, and during our early practice together
in the factory town of Bolton, my attitude toward him had been
largely one of fascinated admiration; but as his boldness in methods
grew, I began to develop a gnawing fear. I did not like the way
he looked at healthy living bodies; and then there came a nightmarish
session in the cellar laboratory when I learned that a certain
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Animal Farm by George Orwell: Napoleon's feet. The pigs' ears were bleeding, the dogs had tasted blood,
and for a few moments they appeared to go quite mad. To the amazement of
everybody, three of them flung themselves upon Boxer. Boxer saw them
coming and put out his great hoof, caught a dog in mid-air, and pinned
him to the ground. The dog shrieked for mercy and the other two fled with
their tails between their legs. Boxer looked at Napoleon to know whether
he should crush the dog to death or let it go. Napoleon appeared to change
countenance, and sharply ordered Boxer to let the dog go, whereat Boxer
lifted his hoof, and the dog slunk away, bruised and howling.
Presently the tumult died down. The four pigs waited, trembling, with
guilt written on every line of their countenances. Napoleon now called
Animal Farm |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Atheist's Mass by Honore de Balzac: having no knowledge of the determinations by which superior
spirits are moved, seize at once on superficial inconsistencies,
to formulate an accusation and so to pass sentence on them. If,
subsequently, the proceedings thus attacked are crowned with
success, showing the correlations of the preliminaries and the
results, a few of the vanguard of calumnies always survive. In
our day, for instance, Napoleon was condemned by our
contemporaries when he spread his eagle's wings to alight in
England: only 1822 could explain 1804 and the flatboats at
Boulogne.
As, in Desplein, his glory and science were invulnerable, his
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