| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen: Aubernon saw himself still a man of struggles and of warfare
with the world, but out of the seven who stood before him and
the high places of his family three only remained. These three,
however, were "good lives," but yet not proof against the Zulu
assegais and typhoid fever, and so one morning Aubernon woke up
and found himself Lord Argentine, a man of thirty who had faced
the difficulties of existence, and had conquered. The situation
amused him immensely, and he resolved that riches should be as
pleasant to him as poverty had always been. Argentine, after
some little consideration, came to the conclusion that dining,
regarded as a fine art, was perhaps the most amusing pursuit
The Great God Pan |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: like a river. When we made the passage (bound, although yet
we knew it not, for Silverado) the steamer jumped, and the
black buoys were dancing in the jabble; the ocean breeze blew
killing chill; and, although the upper sky was still
unflecked with vapour, the sea fogs were pouring in from
seaward, over the hilltops of Marin county, in one great,
shapeless, silver cloud.
South Vallejo is typical of many Californian towns. It was a
blunder; the site has proved untenable; and, although it is
still such a young place by the scale of Europe, it has
already begun to be deserted for its neighbour and namesake,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: began to turn. I had been on a long visit to my parents in Illinois,
and upon my return found West in a state of singular elation.
He had, he told me excitedly, in all likelihood solved the problem
of freshness through an approach from an entirely new angle --
that of artificial preservation. I had known that he was working
on a new and highly unusual embalming compound, and was not surprised
that it had turned out well; but until he explained the details
I was rather puzzled as to how such a compound could help in our
work, since the objectionable staleness of the specimens was largely
due to delay occurring before we secured them. This, I now saw,
West had clearly recognised; creating his embalming compound for
Herbert West: Reanimator |
