| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift: dangerous enemies, and who stay at home on purpose with a design
to deliver the kingdom to the Pretender, hoping to take their
advantage by the absence of so many good Protestants, who have
chosen rather to leave their country, than stay at home and pay
tithes against their conscience to an episcopal curate.
Secondly, The poorer tenants will have something valuable of
their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress, and
help to pay their landlord's rent, their corn and cattle being
already seized, and money a thing unknown.
Thirdly, Whereas the maintainance of an hundred thousand
children, from two years old, and upwards, cannot be computed at
A Modest Proposal |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: of cone-capped heads reaching half way to the zenith.
Carter
did not lose consciousness or even scream aloud, for he was an
old dreamer; but he looked behind him in horror and shuddered
when he saw that there were other monstrous heads silhouetted
above the level of the peaks, bobbing along stealthily after the
first one. And straight in the rear were three of the mighty mountain
shapes seen full against the southern stars, tiptoeing wolflike
and lumberingly, their tall mitres nodding thousands of feet in
the aft. The carven mountains, then, had not stayed squatting
in that rigid semicircle north of Inquanok, with right hands uplifted.
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The First Men In The Moon by H. G. Wells: clear as day. And yet one never saw it as a fact. Kepler, of course -"
His voice had the interest now of a man who has discerned a pretty
sequence of reasoning.
"Yes," he said, "Kepler with his sub-volvani was right after all."
"I wish you had taken the trouble to find that out before we came," I
said.
He answered nothing, buzzing to himself softly, as he pursued his
thoughts. My temper was going.
"What do you think has become of the sphere, anyhow? " I asked.
"Lost," he said, like a man who answers an uninteresting question.
"Among those plants?"
The First Men In The Moon |
