| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: strength which was necessary to carry on his gigantic projects.
There was no one with him, De Vaux having been sent to Ascalon to
bring up reinforcements and supplies of military munition, and
most of his other attendants being occupied in different
departments, all preparing for the re-opening of hostilities, and
for a grand preparatory review of the army of the Crusaders,
which was to take place the next day. The King sat listening to
the busy hum among the soldiery, the clatter from the forges,
where horseshoes were preparing, and from the tents of the
armourers, who were repairing harness. The voice of the
soldiers, too, as they passed and repassed, was loud and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane: Studying faces, she thought many of the women and girls she
chanced to meet, smiled with serenity as though forever cherished
and watched over by those they loved.
The air in the collar and cuff establishment strangled her.
She knew she was gradually and surely shrivelling in the hot,
stuffy room. The begrimed windows rattled incessantly from the
passing of elevated trains. The place was filled with a whirl of
noises and odors.
She wondered as she regarded some of the grizzled women in the
room, mere mechanical contrivances sewing seams and grinding out,
with heads bended over their work, tales of imagined or real
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: supply of very fresh human bodies; very fresh because even the
least decay hopelessly damaged the brain structure, and human
because we found that the solution had to be compounded differently
for different types of organisms. Scores of rabbits and guinea-pigs
had been killed and treated, but their trail was a blind one.
West had never fully succeeded because he had never been able
to secure a corpse sufficiently fresh. What he wanted were bodies
from which vitality had only just departed; bodies with every
cell intact and capable of receiving again the impulse toward
that mode of motion called life. There was hope that this second
and artificial life might be made perpetual by repetitions of
Herbert West: Reanimator |
