| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rinkitink In Oz by L. Frank Baum: credit for the attack."
There being no one now to oppose their advance, the
three walked to the gates of the city, which had been
closed against them. The gates were of iron and heavily
barred, and upon the top of the high walls of the city
a host of the warriors now appeared armed with arrows
and spears and other weapons. For Buzzub had gone
straight to the palace of King Cos and reported his
defeat, relating the powerful magic of the boy, the fat
King and the goat, and had asked what to do next.
The big captain still trembled with fear, but King
Rinkitink In Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer: the flowers like a madman, muttering: "Vernon! Vernon!" For close
upon an hour we all searched. We searched every square yard, I think,
within the wire fencing, and found no trace. Miss Eltham slipped out
in the confusion, and joined with the rest of us in that frantic hunt.
Some of the servants assisted too.
It was a group terrified and awestricken which came together
again on the terrace. One and then another would give up,
until only Eltham and Smith were missing. Then they came back
together from examining the steps to the lower gate.
Eltham dropped on to a rustic seat, and sank his head in his hands.
Nayland Smith paced up and down like a newly caged animal,
The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: scraping of huge paws or claws attached to the end of two of their
four limbs, and walked by the expansion and contraction of a viscous
layer attached to their vast, ten-foot bases.
When the captive
mind's amazement and resentment had worn off, and when - assuming
that it came from a body vastly different from the Great Race's
- it had lost its horror at its unfamiliar temporary form, it
was permitted to study its new environment and experience a wonder
and wisdom approyimating that of its displacer.
With suitable
precautions, and in exchange for suitable services, it was allowed
Shadow out of Time |
