| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: form more than seventeen years ago, when we were in the third
year of our course at the Miskatonic University Medical School
in Arkham. While he was with me, the wonder and diabolism of his
experiments fascinated me utterly, and I was his closest companion.
Now that he is gone and the spell is broken, the actual fear is
greater. Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than
realities.
The first horrible incident of our acquaintance was
the greatest shock I ever experienced, and it is only with reluctance
that I repeat it. As I have said, it happened when we were in
the medical school where West had already made himself notorious
Herbert West: Reanimator |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: yourselves on their backs; then remember the favour of your Lord
when ye settled thereon, and say, 'Celebrated be the praises of Him
who hath subjected this to us! We could not have got this ourselves;
and, verily, unto our Lord shall we return!'
Yet they make for Him of His servants offspring; verily, man is
surely obviously ungrateful.
Has He taken of what He creates daughters, and chosen sons for you?
Yet when the tidings are given any one of that which he strikes
out as a similitude for the Merciful One, his face grows black and
he is choked. What! one brought up amongst ornaments, and who is
always in contention without obvious cause?
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Two Poets by Honore de Balzac: prompt conclusion.
"Can he have been putting money by?" he asked himself. "Or is he
scheming out, at this moment, some way of not paying me?"
With this notion in his head, he tried to find out whether David had
any money with him; he wanted to be paid something on account. The old
man's inquisitiveness roused his son's distrust; David remained close
buttoned up to the chin.
Next day, old Sechard made the apprentice move all his own household
stuff up into the attic until such time as an empty market cart could
take it out on the return journey into the country; and David entered
into possession of three bare, unfurnished rooms on the day that saw
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