| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tour Through Eastern Counties of England by Daniel Defoe: the same misfortune, so that, in the whole, above 200 sail of
ships, and above a thousand people, perished in the disaster of
that one miserable night, very few escaping.
Cromer is a market town close to the shore of this dangerous coast.
I know nothing it is famous for (besides it being thus the terror
of the sailors) except good lobsters, which are taken on that coast
in great numbers and carried to Norwich, and in such quantities
sometimes too as to be conveyed by sea to London.
Farther within the land, and between this place and Norwich, are
several good market towns, and innumerable villages, all diligently
applying to the woollen manufacture, and the country is exceedingly
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gobseck by Honore de Balzac: fortune on some worthless jade. But, in the first place, know this--
that in a few days time Ernest de Restaud will come into a fortune to
which his title is unquestionable, a fortune which will put him in a
position to marry Mlle. Camille, even after adequate provision has
been made for his mother the Comtesse de Restaud and his sister and
brother."
ADDENDUM
The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.
Bidault (known as Gigonnet)
The Government Clerks
The Vendetta
Gobseck |
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: a very strange colloquy began. The Zoogs did not, unfortunately,
know where the peak of Kadath lies, nor could they even say whether
the cold waste is in our dream world or in another. Rumours of
the Great Ones came equally from all points; and one might only
say that they were likelier to be seen on high mountain peaks
than in valleys, since on such peaks they dance reminiscently
when the moon is above and the clouds beneath.
Then one very
ancient Zoog recalled a thing unheard-of by the others; and said
that in Ulthar, beyond the River Skai, there still lingered the
last copy of those inconceivably old Pnakotic Manuscripts made
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
