| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: must have been very small. When the medical examiner came, there
was only a sticky whitish mass on the painted boards, and the
monstrous odour had nearly disappeared. Apparently Whateley had
had no skull or bony skeleton; at least, in any true or stable
sense. He had taken somewhat after his unknown father.
VII.
Yet
all this was only the prologue of the actual Dunwich horror. Formalities
were gone through by bewildered officials, abnormal details were
duly kept from press and public, and men were sent to Dunwich
and Aylesbury to look up property and notify any who might be
The Dunwich Horror |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: and continued to call them, were as father and mother to her.
Once her savage fears allayed, she went to the opposite extreme
of trustfulness and love. Now she was willing to wait here until
they found Korak, or Korak found her. She did not give up that
thought--Korak, her Korak always was first.
Chapter 15
And out in the jungle, far away, Korak, covered with wounds,
stiff with clotted blood, burning with rage and sorrow, swung
back upon the trail of the great baboons. He had not found them
where he had last seen them, nor in any of their usual haunts;
but he sought them along the well-marked spoor they had left
The Son of Tarzan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad: with that man? I did not refuse, simply because I could not
refuse. Curiosity, a healthy desire for a change of cooking,
common civility, the talk and the smiles of the previous twenty
days, every condition of my existence at that moment and place
made irresistibly for acceptance; and, crowning all that, there
was the ignorance--the ignorance, I say--the fatal want of fore
knowledge to counterbalance these imperative conditions of the
problem. A refusal would have appeared perverse and insane.
Nobody, unless a surly lunatic, would have refused. But if I had
not got to know Almayer pretty well it is almost certain there
would never have been a line of mine in print.
A Personal Record |
