| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: that nothing in English was uttered. At first the syllables defied
all correlation with any speech of earth, but towards the last
there came some disjointed fragments evidently taken from the
Necronomicon, that monstrous blasphemy in quest of which the thing
had perished. These fragments, as Armitage recalls them, ran something
like 'N'gai, n'gha'ghaa, bugg-shoggog, y'hah: Yog-Sothoth, Yog-Sothoth
...' They trailed off into nothingness as the whippoorwills shrieked
in rhythmical crescendos of unholy anticipation.
Then came a
halt in the gasping, and the dog raised its head in a long, lugubrious
howl. A change came over the yellow, goatish face of the prostrate
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Commission in Lunacy by Honore de Balzac: These peculiarities helped to affirm his supposed insanity. In spite
of his elegant appearance, he was systematically parsimonious in his
personal expenses, and wore the same black frock-coat for three or
four years, brushed with extreme care by his old man-servant.
As to the children, they both were handsome, and endowed with a grace
which did not exclude an expression of aristocratic disdain. They had
the bright coloring, the clear eye, the transparent flesh which reveal
habits of purity, regularity of life, and a due proportion of work and
play. They both had black hair and blue eyes, and a twist in their
nose, like their father; but their mother, perhaps, had transmitted to
them the dignity of speech, of look and mien, which are hereditary in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy: perfect.
LEO TOLSTOI.
IVAN THE FOOL. Copyright, 1891, by CHAS. L. WEBSTER & CO.
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CHAPTER I
In a certain kingdom there lived a rich peasant, who had three
sons--Simeon (a soldier), Tarras-Briukhan (fat man), and Ivan (a
fool)--and one daughter, Milania, born dumb. Simeon went to
war, to serve the Czar; Tarras went to a city and became a
merchant; and Ivan, with his sister, remained at home to work on
the farm.
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