| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: combats this notion with extreme vigour. Litmus reveals, as you
know, the action of an acid by turning red, turmeric reveals the
action of an alkali by turning brown. Sulphate of soda, you know,
is a salt compounded of the alkali soda and sulphuric acid.
The voltaic current passing through a solution of this salt so
decomposes it, that sulphuric acid appears at one pole of the
decomposing cell and alkali at the other. Faraday steeped a piece
of litmus paper and a piece of turmeric paper in a solution of
sulphate of soda: placing each of them upon a separate plate of
glass, he connected them together by means of a string moistened
with the same solution. He then attached one of them to the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn: stretches out to great lengths, but which nevertheless always remains
attached to its body.
(5) A Chinese collection of stories on the supernatural.
[4] A present made to friends or to the household on returning from a
journey is thus called. Ordinarily, of course, the miyage consists of
something produced in the locality to which the journey has been made: this
is the point of Kwairyo's jest.
(6) Present-day Nagano Prefecture.
A DEAD SECRET
(1) On the present-day map, Tamba corresponds roughly to the central area
of Kyoto Prefecture and part of Hyogo Prefecture.
Kwaidan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde: thou bringest me the piece of red gold I will set thee free, but if
thou bringest it not I will surely slay thee.'
So the Star-Child went to the wood, and all day long he searched
for the piece of red gold, but nowhere could he find it. And at
evening he sat him down and wept, and as he was weeping there came
to him the little Hare.
And the Hare said to him, 'The piece of red gold that thou seekest
is in the cavern that is behind thee. Therefore weep no more but
be glad.'
'How shall I reward thee?' cried the Star-Child, 'for lo! this is
the third time thou hast succoured me.'
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