| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: to history I found myself thinking of periods and events in the
oddest possible fashion.
My conception of time, my ability to
distinguish between consecutiveness and simultaneousness - seemed
subtly disordered so that I formed chimerical notions about living
in one age and casting one's mind all over etenity for knowledge
of past and future ages.
The war gave me strange impressions
of remembering some of its far-off consequences - as if I knew
how it was coming out and could look back upon it in the light
of future information. All such quasi-memories were attended with
Shadow out of Time |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: of the eye and ear, the defiance of old age, and last, but not least,
the warlike training which it ensures. To begin with, when some day he
has to tramp along rough ways under arms, the heavy infantry soldier
will not faint or flag--he will stand the toil from being long
accustomed to the same experiences in capturing wild beasts. In the
next place, men so trained will be capable of sleeping on hard
couches, and prove brave guardians of the posts assigned them. In the
actual encounter with the enemy, they will know at once how to attack
and to carry out the word of command as it passes along the lines,
because it was just so in the old hunting days that they captured the
wild game. If posted in the van of battle, they will not desert their
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Heritage of the Desert by Zane Grey: branded. Perhaps he's marked a good many steers of ours. We can't tell.
But if we have our own branded we'll know what's ours. If he drives our
stock we'll know it; if Dene steals, it can be proved that he steals."
"Well, what then? Do you think he'll care for that, or Holderness
either?"
"No, only it makes this difference: both things will then be barefaced
robbery. We've never been able to prove anything, though we boys know;
we don't need any proof. Father gives these men the benefit of a doubt.
We've got to stand by him. I know, George, your hand's begun to itch for
your gun. So does mine. But we ve orders to obey."
Many gullies and canyons headed up on the slope of Coconina west of
The Heritage of the Desert |
