| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Long Odds by H. Rider Haggard: caused by the passage of the lion through the air. Next second I was
swept to the ground (luckily I fell into a low, creeper-clad bush, which
broke the shock), and the lion was on the top of me, and the next those
great white teeth of his had met in my thigh--I heard them grate against
the bone. I yelled out in agony, for I did not feel in the least
benumbed and happy, like Dr. Livingstone--whom, by the way, I knew very
well--and gave myself up for dead. But suddenly, at that moment, the
lion's grip on my thigh loosened, and he stood over me, swaying to and
fro, his huge mouth, from which the blood was gushing, wide opened.
Then he roared, and the sound shook the rocks.
"To and fro he swung, and then the great head dropped on me, knocking
Long Odds |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: for data.
This earlier experience had come in 1908, seventeen
years before, when the American Archaeological Society held its
annual meeting in St. Louis. Professor Angell, as befitted one
of his authority and attainments, had had a prominent part in
all the deliberations; and was one of the first to be approached
by the several outsiders who took advantage of the convocation
to offer questions for correct answering and problems for expert
solution.
The chief of these outsiders, and in a short time
the focus of interest for the entire meeting, was a commonplace-looking
Call of Cthulhu |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare: HORTENSIO.
But I have cause to pry into this pedant:
Methinks he looks as though he were in love.
Yet if thy thoughts, Bianca, be so humble
To cast thy wand'ring eyes on every stale,
Seize thee that list: if once I find thee ranging,
Hortensio will be quit with thee by changing.
[Exit.]
SCENE II. The same. Before BAPTISTA'S house.
[Enter BAPTISTA, GREMIO, TRANIO, KATHERINA, BIANCA, LUCENTIO, and
ATTENDANTS.]
The Taming of the Shrew |
