| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: time all that could be done was to soothe her distress,
lessen her alarms, and combat her resentment. The first
question on her side, which led to farther particulars,
was,
"How long has this been known to you, Elinor? has
he written to you?"
"I have known it these four months. When Lucy
first came to Barton Park last November, she told me
in confidence of her engagement."
At these words, Marianne's eyes expressed the astonishment
which her lips could not utter. After a pause of wonder,
Sense and Sensibility |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Chouans by Honore de Balzac: new minister, Berthier, had refused to accept his resignation under
existing circumstances. To the official despatch was added a private
letter, in which, without explaining the mission of Mademoiselle de
Verneuil, the minister informed him that the affair was entirely
outside of the war, and not to interfere with any military operations.
The duty of the commanders, he said, was limited to giving assistance
to that honorable /citoyenne/, if occasion arose. Learning from his
scouts that the movements of the Chouans all tended towards a
concentration of their forces in the neighborhood of Fougeres, Hulot
secretly and with forced marches brought two battalions of his brigade
into the town. The nation's danger, his hatred of aristocracy, whose
The Chouans |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: were struck, shots were fired, and escapes were made; but in the
end Legrasse was able to count some forty-seven sullen prisoners,
whom he forced to dress in haste and fall into line between two
rows of policemen. Five of the worshippers lay dead, and two severely
wounded ones were carried away on improvised stretchers by their
fellow-prisoners. The image on the monolith, of course, was carefully
removed and carried back by Legrasse.
Examined at headquarters
after a trip of intense strain and weariness, the prisoners all
proved to be men of a very low, mixed-blooded, and mentally aberrant
type. Most were seamen, and a sprinkling of Negroes and mulattoes,
Call of Cthulhu |
