| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: much more than my liberty to have it safely in their
keeping again; but after that--what?
Would they keep their promises?
I doubted it. With the secret of artificial propagation
once more in their hands their numbers would soon be
made so to overrun the world of Pellucidar that there
could be no hope for the eventual supremacy of the
human race, the cause for which I so devoutly hoped,
for which I had consecrated my life, and for which I
was not willing to give my life.
Yes! In that moment as I stood before the heartless
Pellucidar |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: winking bluish-green spectre of dim flame in a far corner of black
shadows.
The specimen, as West repeatedly observed, had a splendid
nervous system. Much was expected of it; and as a few twitching
motions began to appear, I could see the feverish interest on
West’s face. He was ready, I think, to see proof of his increasingly
strong opinion that consciousness, reason, and personality can
exist independently of the brain -- that man has no central connective
spirit, but is merely a machine of nervous matter, each section
more or less complete in itself. In one triumphant demonstration
West was about to relegate the mystery of life to the category
Herbert West: Reanimator |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey: the board floor instead of the Navajo rug, and she thought she had
encountered cold stone. Stove and hot water notwithstanding, by the time
she was half dressed she was also half frozen. "Some actor fellow once said
w-when you w-went West you were c-camping out," chattered Carley. "Believe
me, he said something."
The fact was Carley had never camped out. Her set played golf, rode
horseback, motored and house-boated, but they had never gone in for
uncomfortable trips. The camps and hotels in the Adirondacks were as warm
and luxurious as Carley's own home. Carley now missed many things. And
assuredly her flesh was weak. It cost her effort of will and real pain to
finish lacing her boots. As she had made an engagement with Glenn to visit
The Call of the Canyon |
