| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: ton on old Mrs. Norcross's nightgown is broken off.
I saw it when I took the garnet ring off her finger.
I thought it was a ruby. . . . -- Stop that! it
won't work."
Kernan turned to Woods with a diabolic smile.
"I've got him going. He believes me now. He
didn't quite cover the transmitter with his hand when
he told somebody to call up Central on another 'phone
and get our number. I'll give him just one more dig,
and then we'll make a 'get-away.'
"Hello! . . . Yes. I'm here yet. You
The Voice of the City |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: -- a languid Elagabalus of the tombs.
Dangers he met unflinchingly;
crimes he committed unmoved. I think the climax came when he had
proved his point that rational life can be restored, and had sought
new worlds to conquer by experimenting on the reanimation of detached
parts of bodies. He had wild and original ideas on the independent
vital properties of organic cells and nerve-tissue separated from
natural physiological systems; and achieved some hideous preliminary
results in the form of never-dying, artificially nourished tissue
obtained from the nearly hatched eggs of an indescribable tropical
reptile. Two biological points he was exceedingly anxious to settle
Herbert West: Reanimator |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Chinese Boy and Girl by Isaac Taylor Headland: in the West, and from the nursery rhymes of at least two
out of the eighteen provinces it appears that the Chinese
nursery is rich in Mother Goose. As a companion to
the "Chinese Mother Goose," this book seeks to show
that the same sunlight fills the homes of both East and
West. If it also leads their far-away mates to look upon
the Chinese Boy and Girl as real little folk, human like
themselves, and thus think more kindly of them, its mission
will have been accomplished.
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