| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The War in the Air by H. G. Wells: "Good day, sah!" said the old negro, in a voice of almost
incredible richness.
"What's the name of this place?" asked Bert.
"Tanooda, sah!" said the negro.
"Thenks!" said Bert.
"Thank YOU, sah!" said the negro, overwhelmingly.
Bert came to houses of the same detached, unwalled, wooden type,
but adorned now with enamelled advertisements partly in English
and partly in Esperanto. Then he came to what he concluded was a
grocer's shop. It was the first house that professed the
hospitality of an open door, and from within came a strangely
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol: from the following chapter.
CHAPTER V
IN WHICH ARE DETAILED THE DELIBERATIONS OF TWO
IMPORTANT PERSONAGES OF MIRGOROD
As soon as Ivan Ivanovitch had arranged his domestic affairs and
stepped out upon the balcony, according to his custom, to lie down, he
saw, to his indescribable amazement, something red at the gate. This
was the red facings of the chief of police's coat, which were polished
equally with his collar, and resembled varnished leather on the edges.
Ivan Ivanovitch thought to himself, "It's not bad that Peter
Feodorovitch has come to talk it over with me." But he was very much
Taras Bulba and Other Tales |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: of fancied footsteps behind him. Now he has disappeared.
II.
The Plague-Daemon
Published March 1922 in Home Brew Vol. 1, No.
2, p. 45-50.
I shall never forget that hideous summer sixteen
years ago, when like a noxious afrite from the halls of Eblis
typhoid stalked leeringly through Arkham. It is by that satanic
scourge that most recall the year, for truly terror brooded with
bat-wings over the piles of coffins in the tombs of Christchurch
Cemetery; yet for me there is a greater horror in that time --
Herbert West: Reanimator |
