| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad: treating all the time into the other yard. At last,
watching his chance, by a sudden charge he bun-
dled him headlong into the wood-lodge, and in-
stantly shot the bolt. Thereupon he wiped his
brow, though the day was cold. He had done his
duty to the community by shutting up a wander-
ing and probably dangerous maniac. Smith isn't
a hard man at all, but he had room in his brain only
for that one idea of lunacy. He was not imagina-
tive enough to ask himself whether the man might
not be perishing with cold and hunger. Meantime,
Amy Foster |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: a queer and evil-looking crew of Kanakas and half-castes. Being
ordered peremptorily to turn back, Capt. Collins refused; whereupon
the strange crew began to fire savagely and without warning upon
the schooner with a peculiarly heavy battery of brass cannon forming
part of the yacht's equipment. The Emma's men shewed fight, says
the survivor, and though the schooner began to sink from shots
beneath the water-line they managed to heave alongside their enemy
and board her, grappling with the savage crew on the yacht's deck,
and being forced to kill them all, the number being slightly superior,
because of their particularly abhorrent and desperate though rather
clumsy mode of fighting.
Call of Cthulhu |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Call of the Wild by Jack London: forebears; for he was a civilized dog, an unduly civilized dog,
and of his own experience knew no trap and so could not of himself
fear it. The muscles of his whole body contracted spasmodically
and instinctively, the hair on his neck and shoulders stood on
end, and with a ferocious snarl he bounded straight up into the
blinding day, the snow flying about him in a flashing cloud. Ere
he landed on his feet, he saw the white camp spread out before him
and knew where he was and remembered all that had passed from the
time he went for a stroll with Manuel to the hole he had dug for
himself the night before.
A shout from Francois hailed his appearance. "Wot I say?" the
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