| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: and when someone in the college district had reported hearing
a scratching at a shuttered window, the net was quickly spread.
On account of the general alarm and precautions, there were only
two more victims, and the capture was effected without major casualties.
The thing was finally stopped by a bullet, though not a fatal
one, and was rushed to the local hospital amidst universal excitement
and loathing.
For it had been a man. This much was clear despite
the nauseous eyes, the voiceless simianism, and the daemoniac
savagery. They dressed its wound and carted it to the asylum at
Sefton, where it beat its head against the walls of a padded cell
Herbert West: Reanimator |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane: for he himself could perceive that Providence had caused it clearly
to be written, that he and his team had the unalienable right to stand
in the proper path of the sun chariot, and if they so minded,
obstruct its mission or take a wheel off.
And, perhaps, if the god-driver had an ungovernable desire to
step down, put up his flame-colored fists and manfully dispute the
right of way, he would have probably been immediately opposed by a
scowling mortal with two sets of very hard knuckles.
It is possible, perhaps, that this young man would have
derided, in an axle-wide alley, the approach of a flying ferry
boat. Yet he achieved a respect for a fire engine. As one charged
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Damaged Goods by Upton Sinclair: "No," persisted Madame Dupont, "I tell you--she has got a cold in
her head, and she has an eruption at the back of the throat."
"Well," cried the nurse, angrily, "if she has, it's because the
doctor scratched her with that spoon he put into her mouth wrong
end first! A cold in the head? Yes, that's true; but if she has
caught cold, I can't say when, I don't know anything about it--
nothing, nothing at all. I have always kept her well covered;
she's always had as much as three covers on her. The truth is,
it was when you came, the time before last; you were all the time
insisting upon opening the windows in the house!"
"But once more I tell you," cried Madame Dupont, "we are not
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