| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: in the terrible task which lay before us. It was then time to start.
So I said farewell to Mina, a parting which neither of us shall forget
to our dying day, and we set out.
To one thing I have made up my mind. If we find out that Mina must be
a vampire in the end, then she shall not go into that unknown and terrible
land alone. I suppose it is thus that in old times one vampire meant many.
Just as their hideous bodies could only rest in sacred earth, so the holiest
love was the recruiting sergeant for their ghastly ranks.
We entered Carfax without trouble and found all things
the same as on the first occasion. It was hard to believe
that amongst so prosaic surroundings of neglect and dust and
Dracula |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: round with him like a parish-top? I would the distance were
greater, or the road rougher, betwixt my hand and mouth! But I
will drink nothing to-morrow save water--nothing save fair
water."
CHAPTER XIX.
PISTOL. And tidings do I bring, and lucky joys,
And happy news of price.
FALSTAFF. I prithee now deliver them like to men of this world.
PISTOL. A foutra for the world, and worldlings base!
I speak of Africa, and golden joys. HENRY IV. PART II.
The public room of the Black Bear at Cumnor, to which the scene
Kenilworth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pathology of Lying, Etc. by William and Mary Healy: types of behavior. Her peculiarities verging on the abnormal
are, however, undoubted; they render her a socially pernicious
person. They are to be summed up in terms of what we have
discussed above, namely, her excessive egoism, her faulty
judgment or apperceptions, her astounding tendency to
falsification.
Inez was next heard from in Iowa where she wrote that two doctors
had pronounced upon her case and said an operation was again
imperative. She asked her recently made friend for permission to
have this done, and also for $150 to cover expenses. Neither, of
course, was forthcoming, on the grounds of there being no
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