| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde: No, no, time will not stop for anything,
Nor the sun stay its courses, though Repentance
Calling it back grow hoarse; but you, my love,
Have you no word of pity even for me?
O Guido, Guido, will you not kiss me once?
Drive me not to some desperate resolve:
Women grow mad when they are treated thus:
Will you not kiss me once?
GUIDO
[holding up knife]
I will not kiss you
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: finished his terrible perusal and sank back exhausted. His wife,
bringing his dinner, found him in a half-comatose state; but he
was conscious enough to warn her off with a sharp cry when he
saw her eyes wander toward the notes he had taken. Weakly rising,
he gathered up the scribbled papers and sealed them all in a great
envelope, which he immediately placed in his inside coat pocket.
He had sufficient strength to get home, but was so clearly in
need of medical aid that Dr Hartwell was summoned at once. As
the doctor put him to bed he could only mutter over and over again,
'But what, in God's name, can we do?'
Dr Armitage slept, but
The Dunwich Horror |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales of Unrest by Joseph Conrad: passed over my neck. I leaped out without a cry. All about me men
slept quietly. I ran to the sea. He ran by my side without footsteps,
whispering, whispering old words--whispering into my ear in his
old voice. I ran into the sea; I swam off to you, with my kriss
between my teeth. I, armed, I fled before a breath--to you. Take me
away to your land. The wise old man has died, and with him is gone the
power of his words and charms. And I can tell no one. No one. There is
no one here faithful enough and wise enough to know. It is only near
you, unbelievers, that my trouble fades like a mist under the eye of
day."
He turned to me.
Tales of Unrest |
