| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: by a large sum of money which he demanded. With this booty he set
sail for Tortuga, where he arrived safely--and the problem was
solved.
After him came one Mansvelt, a buccaneer of lesser note, who
first made a descent upon the isle of Saint Catharine, now Old
Providence, which he took, and, with this as a base, made an
unsuccessful descent upon Neuva Granada and Cartagena. His name
might not have been handed down to us along with others of
greater fame had he not been the master of that most apt of
pupils, the great Captain Henry Morgan, most famous of all the
buccaneers, one time governor of Jamaica, and knighted by King
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anabasis by Xenophon: leading role. This occurred between 401 B.C. and
March 399 B.C.
PREPARER'S NOTE
This was typed from Dakyns' series, "The Works of Xenophon," a
four-volume set. The complete list of Xenophon's works (though
there is doubt about some of these) is:
Work Number of books
The Anabasis 7
The Hellenica 7
The Cyropaedia 8
The Memorabilia 4
Anabasis |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: in swelling domes that tapered to a point, others in terraced
pyramids whereon rose clustered minarets displaying every phase
of strangeness and imagination. The walls were low, and pierced
by frequent gates, each under a great arch rising high above the
general level and capped by the head of a god chiselled with that
same skill displayed in the monstrous face on distant Ngranek.
On a hill in the centre rose a sixteen-angled tower greater than
all the rest and bearing a high pinnacled belfry resting on a
flattened dome. This, the seamen said, was the Temple of the Elder
Ones, and was ruled by an old High-Priest sad with inner secrets.
At intervals the clang of a strange bell shivered over the onyx
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
