| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: but even in the brightest sunlight a kind of quiet dread and portent
seemed to hover about the strangely domed hills and the deep,
shadowy ravines of the stricken region. Now and then on some mountain
top a gaunt circle of stones could be glimpsed against the sky.
From the air of hushed fright at Osborn's store they knew something
hideous had happened, and soon learned of the annihilation of
the Elmer Frye house and family. Throughout that afternoon they
rode around Dunwich, questioning the natives concerning all that
had occurred, and seeing for themselves with rising pangs of horror
the drear Frye ruins with their lingering traces of the tarry
stickiness, the blasphemous tracks in the Frye yard, the wounded
The Dunwich Horror |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ebb-Tide by Stevenson & Osbourne: he would read into his soul; and presently the sleeper moved,
stirred uneasily, turned suddenly round, and threw him a
blinking look. Davis maintained the same dark stare, and Huish
looked away again and sat up.
'Lord, I've an 'eadache on me!' said he. 'I believe I was a bit
swipey last night. W'ere's that cry-byby 'Errick?'
'Gone,' said the captain.
'Ashore?' cried Huish. 'Oh, I say! I'd 'a gone too.'
'Would you?' said the captain.
'Yes, I would,' replied Huish. 'I like Attwater. 'E's all right;
we got on like one o'clock when you were gone. And ain't his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks
of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
EXO 38:12 And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their
pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their
fillets of silver.
EXO 38:13 And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.
EXO 38:14 The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits;
their pillars three, and their sockets three.
EXO 38:15 And for the other side of the court gate, on this hand and
that hand, were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and
their sockets three.
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