| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: But he said not a word, and in a few seconds stood up with his
face sternly set.
Lord Godalming grew very pale, and sat breathing heavily.
I was myself half stunned and looked in wonder at one after another.
Quincey Morris tightened his belt with that quick movement which I
knew so well. In our old wandering days it meant "action."
Mrs. Harker grew ghastly white, so that the scar on her forehead seemed
to burn, but she folded her hands meekly and looked up in prayer.
Harker smiled, actually smiled, the dark, bitter smile of one who is
without hope, but at the same time his action belied his words,
for his hands instinctively sought the hilt of the great Kukri
Dracula |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: If she cannot descend this evening, I am afraid that you must
excuse me too, Monsieur.'
I said what was right, and watched her go in; and, as I did so, I
loathed my errand, and the mean contemptible curiosity which it
had planted in my mind, more than at any former time. These
women--I could find it in my heart to hate them for their
frankness, for their foolish confidence, and the silly
trustfulness that made them so easy a prey!
NOM DE DIEU! What did the woman mean by telling me all this? To
meet me in such a way, to disarm one by such methods, was to take
an unfair advantage. It put a vile--ay, the vilest--aspect, on
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Coblich?"
The other stared at Peter of Blentz for several seconds
while the atrocity of his chief's plan filtered through his
brain.
"My God!" he exclaimed at last. "You mean that you
wish me to murder Leopold with my own hands?"
"You put it too crudely, my dear Coblich," replied the
other.
"I cannot do it," muttered Coblich. "I have never killed a
man in my life. I am getting old. No, I could never do it.
I should not sleep nights."
The Mad King |
