| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen: "No, I think not, hardly a collector. Now, what do you
think of these Ainu jugs?"
"They are peculiar, but I like them. But aren't you
going to show me poor Meyrick's legacy?"
"Yes, yes, to be sure. The fact is, it's rather a
peculiar sort of thing, and I haven't shown it to any one. I
wouldn't say anything about it if I were you. There it is."
Villiers took the book, and opened it at haphazard.
"It isn't a printed volume, then?" he said.
"No. It is a collection of drawings in black and white
by my poor friend Meyrick."
The Great God Pan |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: trace of the missing one or a sign of the trail of her abductor.
But though the spoor left by the fifty frightful men,
unversed in woodcraft as they were, would have been
as plain to the densest denizen of the jungle as a city street
to the Englishman, yet he crossed and recrossed it twenty
times without observing the slightest indication that many
men had passed that way but a few short hours since.
As he searched, Clayton continued to call the girl's name
aloud, but the only result of this was to attract Numa,
the lion. Fortunately the man saw the shadowy form worming
its way toward him in time to climb into the branches of a tree
The Return of Tarzan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac: in the Bridau interest, was much put about by this disaster, and
questioned old Monsieur Heron, the notary at Bourges, as to the object
of it.
"The heirs of old Rouget, if old Rouget changes his mind, ought to
make me a votive offering," cried Monsieur Heron. "If it had not been
for me, the old fellow would have allowed the fifty thousand francs'
income to stand in the name of Maxence Gilet. I told Mademoiselle
Brazier that she ought to look to the will only, and not run the risk
of a suit for spoliation, seeing what numerous proofs these transfers
in every direction would give against them. To gain time, I advised
Maxence and his mistress to keep quiet, and let this sudden change in
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