| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: could most wish there hadn't ever been no snakes
created. Why, after every last snake had been gone
clear out of the house for as much as a week Aunt
Sally warn't over it yet; she warn't near over it; when
she was setting thinking about something you could
touch her on the back of her neck with a feather and
she would jump right out of her stockings. It was
very curious. But Tom said all women was just so.
He said they was made that way for some reason or
other.
We got a licking every time one of our snakes come
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: For love, I believe," she interjected very quickly, "and came to no
harm. Her guardian angel must have slipped his wings under her
just in time. He must have. But as to me, all I know is that I
didn't break anything - not even my heart. Don't be shocked, Mr.
Mills. It's very likely that you don't understand."
"Very likely," Mills assented, unmoved. "But don't be too sure of
that."
"Henry Allegre had the highest opinion of your intelligence," she
said unexpectedly and with evident seriousness. "But all this is
only to tell you that when he was gone I found myself down there
unhurt, but dazed, bewildered, not sufficiently stunned. It so
The Arrow of Gold |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: sculptor with scientific minuteness; and studied with frantic
intensity the bas-relief on which the youth had found himself
working, chilled and clad only in his night clothes, when waking
had stolen bewilderingly over him. My uncle blamed his old age,
Wilcox afterwards said, for his slowness in recognizing both hieroglyphics
and pictorial design. Many of his questions seemed highly out
of place to his visitor, especially those which tried to connect
the latter with strange cults or societies; and Wilcox could not
understand the repeated promises of silence which he was offered
in exchange for an admission of membership in some widespread
mystical or paganly religious body. When Professor Angell became
Call of Cthulhu |
