| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson: gratifications, and looks forward to pleasure so
remotely consequential, that her practices raise no
alarm, and her stratagems are not easily discovered.
Vanity is, indeed, often suffered to pass unpursued
by suspicion, because he that would watch her motions,
can never be at rest: fraud and malice are
bounded in their influence; some opportunity of
time and place is necessary to their agency; but
scarce any man is abstracted one moment from his
vanity; and he, to whom truth affords no gratifications,
is generally inclined to seek them in falsehoods.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne: J. M. BELFAST,
_Director of the Observatory of Cambridge._
CHAPTER V
THE ROMANCE OF THE MOON
An observer endued with an infinite range of vision, and placed
in that unknown center around which the entire world revolves,
might have beheld myriads of atoms filling all space during the
chaotic epoch of the universe. Little by little, as ages went
on, a change took place; a general law of attraction manifested
itself, to which the hitherto errant atoms became obedient:
these atoms combined together chemically according to their
From the Earth to the Moon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: or not the others were precisely like him. No one could read the
old writing now, but things were told by word of mouth. The chanted
ritual was not the secret - that was never spoken aloud, only
whispered. The chant meant only this: "In his house at R'lyeh
dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."
Only two of the prisoners were
found sane enough to be hanged, and the rest were committed to
various institutions. All denied a part in the ritual murders,
and averred that the killing had been done by Black Winged Ones
which had come to them from their immemorial meeting-place in
the haunted wood. But of those mysterious allies no coherent account
Call of Cthulhu |
