| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen: affixed to the wall, and Mr. Collier-Stuart and Mr. Herries had
chosen to die as Lord Argentine. There was no explanation in
either case; a few bald facts; a living man in the evening, and
a body with a black swollen face in the morning. The police
had been forced to confess themselves powerless to arrest or to
explain the sordid murders of Whitechapel; but before the
horrible suicides of Piccadilly and Mayfair they were
dumbfoundered, for not even the mere ferocity which did duty as
an explanation of the crimes of the East End, could be of
service in the West. Each of these men who had resolved to die
a tortured shameful death was rich, prosperous, and to all
The Great God Pan |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: Detective Ferguson recognized Kent as he passed up the room to the
platform and gave him a slight bow and smile, but the smile had
disappeared when, at the coroner's request, he told of his arrival
just after the discovery of the burglar's identity.
"I searched the cage where the prisoner had been seated and found
this handkerchief," he went on to say. "It had been dropped by
Turnbull and was saturated with amyl nitrite. I had it examined
by a chemist, who said that this amyl nitrite was given to patients
with heart trouble in little pearl capsules to be crushed in
handkerchiefs and the fumes inhaled.
"The chemist also told me that" - the detective spoke with
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: this fact, however, but ground his teeth and clung blind-eyed to his
temper whenever the mother cut short his visits or annulled his
engagements on some petty excuse of her own. He could almost
believe these interruptions malicious, were it not that he soon
discovered Mrs. Bishop well disposed toward him personally whenever
he showed himself ready to meet her even quarter way on the topics
that interested her--the church and her health.
In this manner the week passed. Orde saw as much as he could of
Miss Bishop. The remainder of the time he spent walking the streets
and reading in the club rooms to which Gerald's courtesy had given
him access. Gerald himself seemed to be much occupied. Precisely
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