| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: the expert test of my friend soon left no doubt on that score.
We had at last what West had always longed for -- a real dead
man of the ideal kind, ready for the solution as prepared according
to the most careful calculations and theories for human use. The
tension on our part became very great. We knew that there was
scarcely a chance for anything like complete success, and could
not avoid hideous fears at possible grotesque results of partial
animation. Especially were we apprehensive concerning the mind
and impulses of the creature, since in the space following death
some of the more delicate cerebral cells might well have suffered
deterioration. I, myself, still held some curious notions about
Herbert West: Reanimator |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Herodias by Gustave Flaubert: "His name!" was the cry from all lips.
"Iaokanann!"
Antipas fell back in his chair as if a heavy blow had struck him on
the breast. The Sadducees rose from their seats and rushed towards
Jacob. Eleazar raised his voice to a shout in order to make himself
heard. When order was finally restored, he draped his mantle about his
shoulders, and, with the air of a judge, proceeded to put questions to
Jacob.
"Since the prophet is dead--" he began.
Murmurs interrupted him. Many persons believed that Elias was not
dead, but had only disappeared.
Herodias |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: it, jealousy. They had no interplay of warring nations, no aristocracy
and its ambitions, no wealth and poverty opposition.
I see I have said little about the economics of the place; it
should have come before, but I'll go on about the drama now.
They had their own kind. There was a most impressive array
of pageantry, of processions, a sort of grand ritual, with their arts
and their religion broadly blended. The very babies joined in it.
To see one of their great annual festivals, with the massed and
marching stateliness of those great mothers, the young women brave
and noble, beautiful and strong; and then the children, taking part
as naturally as ours would frolic round a Christmas tree--it was
Herland |
