| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells: and opened it at once.
"For Heaven's sake come.--Pyecraft."
"H'm," said I, and to tell the truth I was so pleased at the
rehabilitation of my great grandmother's reputation this evidently
promised that I made a most excellent lunch.
I got Pyecraft's address from the hall porter. Pyecraft inhabited the
upper half of a house in Bloomsbury, and I went there so soon as I
had done my coffee and Trappistine. I did not wait to finish my cigar.
"Mr. Pyecraft?" said I, at the front door.
They believed he was ill; he hadn't been out for two days.
"He expects me," said I, and they sent me up.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: when Gideon was startled by a cry from Julia. Peering through the
window, he beheld her staring disconsolately downstream at the
fast-vanishing canoe. The barrister (whatever were his faults)
displayed on this occasion a promptitude worthy of his hero,
Robert Skill; with one effort of his mind he foresaw what was
about to follow; with one movement of his body he dropped to the
floor and crawled under the table.
Julia, on her part, was not yet alive to her position. She saw
she had lost the canoe, and she looked forward with something
less than avidity to her next interview with Mr Bloomfield; but
she had no idea that she was imprisoned, for she knew of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: to see the grotesque and terrible face of the creature.
A moment later she caught sight of Number Twelve's
hideous face. She was appalled.
Could it be that she had been rescued from the Malay
to fall into the hands of creatures equally heartless
and entirely without souls? She glanced up at the face
of him who carried her. In the darkness of the night
she had not yet had an opportunity to see the features
of the man, but after a glimpse at those of his two
companions she trembled to think of the hideous thing
that might be revealed to her.
The Monster Men |
