| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton: bungalow? And Nick--ah, how's Nick?" he brought out
triumphantly.
"Oh, yes--darling Nick?" Mrs. Melrose chimed in; and Susy, her
head erect, her cheeks aflame, declared with resonance: "Most
awfully well--splendidly!"
"He's not here, though?" from Fulmer.
"No. He's off travelling--cruising."
Mrs. Melrose's attention was faintly roused. "With anybody
interesting?"
"No; you wouldn't know them. People we met ...." She did not
have to continue, for her hostess's gaze had again strayed.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: loathsome horrors we found. I have said that the bodies were frightfully
mangled. Now I must add that some were incised and subtracted
from in the most curious, cold-blooded, and inhuman fashion. It
was the same with dogs and men. All the healthier, fatter bodies,
quadrupedal or bipedal, had had their most solid masses of tissue
cut out and removed, as by a careful butcher; and around them
was a strange sprinkling of salt - taken from the ravaged provision
chests on the planes - which conjured up the most horrible associations.
The thing had occurred in one of the crude aeroplane shelters
from which the plane had been dragged out, and subsequent winds
had effaced all tracks which could have supplied any plausible
At the Mountains of Madness |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: brought against the victors.
So by night Pickman and Carter
assembled all the ghouls and counted them with care, finding that
over a fourth had been lost in the day's battles. The wounded
were placed on bunks in the galley, for Pickman always discouraged
the old ghoulish custom of killing and eating one's own wounded,
and the able-bodied troops were assigned to the oars or to such
other places as they might most usefully fill. Under the low phosphorescent
clouds of night the galley sailed, and Carter was not sorry to
be departing from the island of unwholesome secrets, whose lightless
domed hall with its bottomless well and repellent bronze door
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
