| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: "I wish to be 'told,' " declared Zoie; "I don't suppose you
realise it, but if I were to live a THOUSAND YEARS, I'd never be
quite sure what you did during those FEW MONTHS."
"It was nothing that you wouldn't have been proud of," answered
Alfred, with an unconscious expansion of his chest.
"Do you love me as much as ever?" asked Zoie.
"Behave yourself," answered Alfred, trying not to appear
flattered by the discovery that his absence had undoubtedly
caused her great uneasiness.
"Well, SAY it!" demanded Zoie.
"You know I do," answered Alfred, with the diffidence of a school
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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: formed by Whateley's boarded-up farmhouse. Earl Sawyer, who tended
the horse and cattle during Wilbur's absence, had developed a
woefully acute case of nerves. The officials devised excuses not
to enter the noisome boarded place; and were glad to confine their
survey of the deceased's living quarters, the newly mended sheds,
to a single visit. They filed a ponderous report at the courthouse
in Aylesbury, and litigations concerning heirship are said to
be still in progress amongst the innumerable Whateleys, decayed
and undecayed, of the upper Miskatonic valley.
An almost interminable
manuscript in strange characters, written in a huge ledger and
The Dunwich Horror |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The War in the Air by H. G. Wells: fragments, burst over the middle gas-chambers of the Bingen, and
brought her to earth, disabled, upon Staten Island. She was
badly deflated, and dropped among trees, over which her empty
central gas-bags spread in canopies and festoons. Nothing,
however, had caught fire, and her men were speedily at work upon
her repair. They behaved with a confidence that verged upon
indiscretion. While most of them commenced patching the tears
of the membrane, half a dozen of them started off for the nearest
road in search of a gas main, and presently found themselves
prisoners in the hands of a hostile crowd. Close at hand was a
number of villa residences, whose occupants speedily developed
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