| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: Whateley had left behind him - the earth threatening entity which,
unknown to him, was to burst forth in a few hours and become the
memorable Dunwich horror.
Monday was a repetition of Sunday
with Dr Armitage, for the task in hand required an infinity of
research and experiment. Further consultations of the monstrous
diary brought about various changes of plan, and he knew that
even in the end a large amount of uncertainty must remain. By
Tuesday he had a definite line of action mapped out, and believed
he would try a trip to Dunwich within a week. Then, on Wednesday,
the great shock came. Tucked obscurely away in a corner of the
The Dunwich Horror |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: government and the German residents." The provisions of this
council the king and vice-king were to sign blindfold. And by a
last hardship, the Germans, who received all the benefit, reserved
a right to recede from the agreement on six months' notice; the
Samoans, who suffered all the loss, were bound by it in perpetuity.
I can never believe that my friend Dr. Stuebel had a hand in
drafting these proposals; I am only surprised he should have been a
party to enforcing them, perhaps the chief error in these islands
of a man who has made few. And they were enforced with a rigour
that seems injudicious. The Samoans (according to their own
account) were denied a copy of the document; they were certainly
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Daisy Miller by Henry James: "I'm afraid your mother doesn't approve of my walking with you."
Miss Miller gave him a serious glance. "It isn't for me;
it's for you--that is, it's for HER. Well, I don't know who
it's for! But mother doesn't like any of my gentlemen friends.
She's right down timid. She always makes a fuss if I introduce
a gentleman. But I DO introduce them--almost always.
If I didn't introduce my gentlemen friends to Mother,"
the young girl added in her little soft, flat monotone,
"I shouldn't think I was natural."
"To introduce me," said Winterbourne, "you must know my name."
And he proceeded to pronounce it.
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