| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: that it came from a body vastly different from the Great Race's
- it had lost its horror at its unfamiliar temporary form, it
was permitted to study its new environment and experience a wonder
and wisdom approyimating that of its displacer.
With suitable
precautions, and in exchange for suitable services, it was allowed
to rove all over the habitable world in titan airships or on the
huge boatlike atomic-engined vehicles which traversed the great
roads, and to delve freely into the libraries containing the records
of the planet's past and future.
This reconciled many captive
Shadow out of Time |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Time Machine by H. G. Wells: We looked at each other. Then ideas began to come. `Has Mr.
---- gone out that way?' said I.
`No, sir. No one has come out this way. I was expecting to
find him here.'
At that I understood. At the risk of disappointing Richardson
I stayed on, waiting for the Time Traveller; waiting for the
second, perhaps still stranger story, and the specimens and
photographs he would bring with him. But I am beginning now to
fear that I must wait a lifetime. The Time Traveller vanished
three years ago. And, as everybody knows now, he has never
returned.
The Time Machine |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Complete Poems of Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: As he came forth to the freshness
Of the pleasant Summer morning.
All the birds were singing gayly,
All the streamlets flowing swiftly,
And the heart of Pau-Puk-Keewis
Sang with pleasure as the birds sing,
Beat with triumph like the streamlets,
As he wandered through the village,
In the early gray of morning,
With his fan of turkey-feathers,
With his plumes and tufts of swan's down,
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