| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: us all? Is it that we naturally conceive terror from such objects,
considered in their capacity of being able to inflict upon us
bodily injury? O, least of all! These terrors are of older standing.
They date beyond body - or without the body, they would have been
the same... That the kind of fear here treated is purely spiritual
- that it is strong in proportion as it is objectless on earth,
that it predominates in the period of our sinless infancy - are
difficulties the solution of which might afford some probable
insight into our ante-mundane condition, and a peep at least into
the shadowland of pre-existence.
- Charles Lamb: Witches and
The Dunwich Horror |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: "But of course there are plenty of Indians about?"
"Every mother's son of them down to Dawson long ago. Not a native
in the whole country, barring Winapie here, and she's a Koyokuk
lass,--comes from a thousand miles or so down the river."
Mrs. Sayther felt suddenly faint; and though the smile of interest
in no wise waned, the face of the man seemed to draw away to a
telescopic distance, and the tiered logs of the cabin to whirl
drunkenly about. But she was bidden draw up to the table, and
during the meal discovered time and space in which to find
herself. She talked little, and that principally about the land
and weather, while the man wandered off into a long description of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Before Adam by Jack London: invented sounds for it, his fellows did not understand
the sounds. Then it was that he fell back on
pantomime, illustrating the thought wherever possible
and at the same time repeating the new sound over and
over again.
Thus language grew. By the few sounds we possessed we
were enabled to think a short distance beyond those
sounds; then came the need for new sounds wherewith to
express the new thought. Sometimes, however, we thought
too long a distance in advance of our sounds, managed
to achieve abstractions (dim ones I grant), which we
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