| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wheels of Chance by H. G. Wells: stretch of up and down road, whose only disadvantage was its
pitiless exposure to the afternoon sun. The tandem apparently
dismounted at the hill, and did not appear against the hot blue
sky until they were already near some trees and a good mile away.
"We're gaining," said Mr. Hoopdriver, with a little Niagara of
perspiration dropping from brow to cheek. "That hill--"
But that was their only gleam of success. They were both nearly
spent. Hoopdriver, indeed, was quite spent, and only a feeling of
shame prolonged the liquidation of his bankrupt physique. From
that point the tandem grained upon them steadily. At the Rufus
Stone, it was scarcely a hundred yards behind. Then one desperate
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: by which the earth were cut up, or the dead made to speak- nay,
God's is the command altogether! Did not those who believed know
that if God had pleased He would have guided men altogether?
And a striking calamity shall not cease to overtake those who
misbelieve for what they have wrought, or to alight close by their
dwellings; until God's promise comes- verily, God fails not in His
promise.
Before thee have apostles been mocked at; and those who
misbelieved have I allowed to range at large; and then it caught
them up! How then was my punishment?
Shall He who is standing over every soul (to note) what it has
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: made me famous upon Barsoom. Thirty, fifty, a hundred feet at a bound
are nothing for the muscles of an athletic Earth man upon Mars.
As I passed the flank of the waiting green men they saw my eyes
turned upon them, and in an instant, knowing that all secrecy
was at an end, those nearest me sprang to their feet in an effort
to cut me off before I could reach the gate.
At the same instant the mighty portal swung wide and the head
of the Kaolian column emerged. A dozen green warriors had
succeeded in reaching a point between me and the gate, but they
The Warlord of Mars |
