| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: her shoulders like a physician who has given up his patient.
"How one realizes the shortness of life," I said to myself, "by
the rapidity of sensations! I have only known Marguerite for two
days, she has only been my mistress since yesterday, and she has
already so completely absorbed my thoughts, my heart, and my life
that the visit of the Comte de G. is a misfortune for me."
At last the count came out, got into his carriage and
disappeared. Prudence closed the window. At the same instant
Marguerite called to us:
"Come at once," she said; "they are laying the table, and we'll
have supper."
Camille |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: seemed to sense the close presence of some terrible part of the
intruding horror, and to glimpse a hellish advance in the black
dominion of the ancient and once passive nightmare. He locked
away the Necronomicon with a shudder of disgust, but the room
still reeked with an unholy and unidentifiable stench. 'As a foulness
shall ye know them,' he quoted. Yes - the odour was the same as
that which had sickened him at the Whateley farmhouse less than
three years before. He thought of Wilbur, goatish and ominous,
once again, and laughed mockingly at the village rumours of his
parentage.
'Inbreeding?' Armitage muttered half-aloud to himself.
The Dunwich Horror |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pierre Grassou by Honore de Balzac: and lighted his stove, was eating a roll steeped in milk, and waiting
till the frost on his windows had melted sufficiently to let the full
light in. The weather was fine and dry. At this moment the artist, who
ate his bread with that patient, resigned air that tells so much,
heard and recognized the step of a man who had upon his life the
influence such men have on the lives of nearly all artists,--the step
of Elie Magus, a picture-dealer, a usurer in canvas. The next moment
Elie Magus entered and found the painter in the act of beginning his
work in the tidy studio.
"How are you, old rascal?" said the painter.
Fougeres had the cross of the Legion of honor, and Elie Magus bought
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