| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Z. Marcas by Honore de Balzac: the crater of a volcano. May not any inkstand nowadays become a
Vesuvius? The pens, all twisted, served to clean the stems of our
pipes; and, in opposition to all the laws of credit, paper was even
scarcer than coin.
How can young men be expected to stay at home in such furnished
lodgings? The students studied in the cafes, the theatre, the
Luxembourg gardens, in /grisettes'/ rooms, even in the law schools--
anywhere rather than in their horrible rooms--horrible for purposes of
study, delightful as soon as they were used for gossiping and smoking
in. Put a cloth on the table, and the impromptu dinner sent in from
the best eating-house in the neighborhood--places for four--two of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: normal to the non-human greenish tinge, whilst in the tail it
was manifest as a yellowish appearance which alternated with a
sickly grayish-white in the spaces between the purple rings. Of
genuine blood there was none; only the foetid greenish-yellow
ichor which trickled along the painted floor beyond the radius
of the stickiness, and left a curious discoloration behind it.
As the presence of the three men seemed to rouse the dying thing,
it began to mumble without turning or raising its head. Dr Armitage
made no written record of its mouthings, but asserts confidently
that nothing in English was uttered. At first the syllables defied
all correlation with any speech of earth, but towards the last
The Dunwich Horror |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Burning Daylight by Jack London: guessing that the electric roads are coming. I'll build the
roads.
That will make the land jump up. Then I'll sell the land as fast
as the folks will want to buy because of the improved ferry
system
and transportation facilities.
"You see, I give the value to the land by building the roads.
Then I sell the land and get that value back, and after that,
there's the roads, all carrying folks back and forth and earning
big money. Can't lose. And there's all sorts of millions in it.
I'm going to get my hands on some of that water front and the
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