| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: numbers of rabbits, guinea-pigs, cats, dogs, and monkeys, till
he had become the prime nuisance of the college. Several times
he had actually obtained signs of life in animals supposedly dead;
in many cases violent signs but he soon saw that the perfection
of his process, if indeed possible, would necessarily involve
a lifetime of research. It likewise became clear that, since the
same solution never worked alike on different organic species,
he would require human subjects for further and more specialised
progress. It was here that he first came into conflict with the
college authorities, and was debarred from future experiments
by no less a dignitary than the dean of the medical school himself
Herbert West: Reanimator |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: staring at the big bottle of hair tonic, the wicker bottle of eau-de-
Cologne, the two hair-brushes, and a dozen new collars tied with pink tape.
"Is this all your luggage?"
"Hang my luggage!" said Hammond; but all the same he liked being laughed at
by Janey. "Let's talk. Let's get down to things. Tell me"--and as Janey
perched on his knees he leaned back and drew her into the deep, ugly chair-
-"tell me you're really glad to be back, Janey."
"Yes, darling, I am glad," she said.
But just as when he embraced her he felt she would fly away, so Hammond
never knew--never knew for dead certain that she was as glad as he was.
How could he know? Would he ever know? Would he always have this craving-
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Recruit by Honore de Balzac: all the guests were preparing to leave together after the established
customs of provincial towns.
"The prosecutor, it seems, has stayed behind," said a lady, perceiving
that that important personage was missing, when the company parted in
the large square to go to their several houses.
That terrible magistrate was, in fact, alone with the countess, who
waited, trembling, till it should please him to depart.
"Citoyenne," he said, after a long silence in which there was
something terrifying, "I am here to enforce the laws of the Republic."
Madame de Dey shuddered.
"Have you nothing to reveal to me?" he demanded.
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