| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: the devil-devil house and set fire to it. Soon every house was
blazing merrily, while the ancient fire-tender sat upright in the
sunshine blinking at the destruction of his village. From the
heights above, where were evidently other villages, came the
booming of drums and a wild blowing of war-conchs; but Sheldon had
dared all he cared to with his small following. Besides, his
mission was accomplished. Every member of Tudor's expedition was
accounted for; and it was a long, dark way out of the head-hunters'
country. Releasing their two prisoners, who leaped away like
startled deer, they plunged down the steep path into the steaming
jungle.
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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: All through late August he fortified himself with the mass lore
of cryptography; drawing upon the fullest resources of his own
library, and wading night after night amidst the arcana of Trithemius'
Poligraphia, Giambattista Porta's De Furtivis Literarum Notis,
De Vigenere's Traite des Chiffres, Falconer's Cryptomenysis Patefacta,
Davys' and Thicknesse's eighteenth-century treatises, and such
fairly modern authorities as Blair, van Marten and Kluber's script
itself, and in time became convinced that he had to deal with
one of those subtlest and most ingenious of cryptograms, in which
many separate lists of corresponding letters are arranged like
the multiplication table, and the message built up with arbitrary
The Dunwich Horror |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain: engaged in some other line of business--its tail will give it away.
I found out all these things by myself, without a teacher.
I selected the verb AMARE, TO LOVE. Not for any personal reason,
for I am indifferent about verbs; I care no more for one verb than
for another, and have little or no respect for any of them; but in
foreign languages you always begin with that one. Why, I don't know.
It is merely habit, I suppose; the first teacher chose it,
Adam was satisfied, and there hasn't been a successor since with
originality enough to start a fresh one. For they ARE a pretty
limited lot, you will admit that? Originality is not in their line;
they can't think up anything new, anything to freshen up the old
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