| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: turned red himself and pupil and master exchanged a longish glance
in which there was a consciousness of many more things than are
usually touched upon, even tacitly, in such a relation. It
produced for Pemberton an embarrassment; it raised in a shadowy
form a question - this was the first glimpse of it - destined to
play a singular and, as he imagined, owing to the altogether
peculiar conditions, an unprecedented part in his intercourse with
his little companion. Later, when he found himself talking with
the youngster in a way in which few youngsters could ever have been
talked with, he thought of that clumsy moment on the bench at Nice
as the dawn of an understanding that had broadened. What had added
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: in Boardman Street near Golden Hill - and did not go to Arkham
till I entered Miskatonic University as instructor of political
economy in 1895.
For thirteen years more my life ran smoothly
and happily. I married Alice Keezar of Haverhill in 1896, and
my three children, Robert, Wingate and Hannah were born in 1898,
1900, and 1903, respectively. In 1898 I became an associate professor,
and in 1902 a full professor. At no time had I the least interest
in either occultism or abnormal psychology.
It was on Thursday,
14 May 1908, that the queer amnesia came. The thing was quite
Shadow out of Time |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: "Shucks! She ain't scared of no sawed-off, hammered-down runt
like Texas, No, siree! Miss Messiter's on the absent list 'cause
she's afraid she cayn't resist the blandishments of Soapy. Did
yo' ever hear about Soapy and that Caspar hash slinger?"
"Forget it, Slim," advised Soapy, promptly. He had been engaged
in lofty and oblivious conversation with Texas, but he did not
intend to allow reminiscences to get under way just now.
At this opportune juncture arrived the mistress of the "gasoline
bronc," neatly clad in a simple white lawn with blue trimmings.
She looked like a gleam of sunshine in her fresh, sweet youth;
and not even in her own school room had she ever found herself
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