| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: ing as he sniffed the air about him. Then, with the swiftness
and agility of a cat, he leaped far outward upon a swaying
branch, sprang upward through the darkness, caught another,
swung himself upon it and then to one still higher. What
could have so suddenly transformed his matter-of-fact ascent
of the giant bole to the swift and wary action of his detour
among the branches? You or I could have seen nothing --
not even the little platform that an instant before had been
just above him and which now was immediately below -- but
as he swung above it we should have heard an ominous growl;
and then as the moon was momentarily uncovered, we should
Tarzan the Untamed |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Common Sense by Thomas Paine: It is pleasant to observe by what regular gradations
we surmount the force of local prejudice, as we enlarge
our acquaintance with the world. A man born in any town
in England divided into parishes, will naturally associate most
with his fellow-parishioners (because their interests in many
cases will be common) and distinguish him by the name of NEIGHBOUR;
if he meet him but a few miles from home, he drops the narrow idea
of a street, and salutes him by the name of TOWNSMAN; if he travel out
of the county, and meet him in any other, he forgets the minor divisions
of street and town, and calls him COUNTRYMAN, i. e. COUNTRYMAN;
but if in their foreign excursions they should associate in France
Common Sense |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: of the earth" - gave an almost completely negative result, though
scattered cases of uneasy but formless nocturnal impressions appear
here and there, always between March 23 and and April 2 - the
period of young Wilcox's delirium. Scientific men were little
more affected, though four cases of vague description suggest
fugitive glimpses of strange landscapes, and in one case there
is mentioned a dread of something abnormal.
It was from the
artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know
that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare
notes. As it was, lacking their original letters, I half suspected
Call of Cthulhu |
