| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: "What?"
"Well, you know, we ought to know Oldham- one of us ought to. It
was a Unionist gain last time."
"Are you a Unionist?"
"My dear, you see in me- at least you would see in me, if it were
not so dark- a high Tory."
"I thought you were a boy-scout."
"The two are not incompatible. Did you see that thing in Ally
Sloper last week?"
"No, I didn't. Here's a gate."
I got down and opened it, and she drove carefully through.
The Brother of Daphne |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: other chiefs were effusive in their gratitude for the aid Carter
had lent them. Carter now began to feel that his plans were indeed
maturing well, and that he would be able to command the help of
these fearsome allies not only in quitting this part of dreamland,
but in pursuing his ultimate quest for the gods atop unknown Kadath,
and the marvellous sunset city they so strangely withheld from
his slumbers. Accordingly he spoke of these things to the ghoulish
leaders; telling what he knew of the cold waste wherein Kadath
stands and of the monstrous Shantaks and the mountains carven
into double-headed images which guard it. He spoke of the fear
of Shantaks for night-gaunts, and of how the vast hippocephalic
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: characteristic of the Zanes; the same oval face and fine features: and added
to this was a certain softness of contour and a sweetness of expression which
made her face bewitching. But, in spite of that demure and innocent face, she
possessed a decided will of her own, and one very apt to be asserted; she was
mischievous; inclined to coquettishness, and more terrible than all she had a
fiery temper which could be aroused with the most surprising ease.
Colonel Zane was wont to say that his sister's accomplishments were
innumerable. After only a few months on the border she could prepare the flax
and weave a linsey dresscloth with admirable skill. Sometimes to humor Betty
the Colonel's wife would allow her to get the dinner, and she would do it in a
manner that pleased her brothers, and called forth golden praises from the
Betty Zane |
