| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Reason Discourse by Rene Descartes: designated, because it is simply a vein which comes from the lungs, where
it is divided into many branches, interlaced with those of the arterial
vein, and those of the tube called the windpipe, through which the air we
breathe enters; and the great artery which, issuing from the heart, sends
its branches all over the body. I should wish also that such persons were
carefully shown the eleven pellicles which, like so many small valves,
open and shut the four orifices that are in these two cavities, viz.,
three at the entrance of the hollow veins where they are disposed in such
a manner as by no means to prevent the blood which it contains from
flowing into the right ventricle of the heart, and yet exactly to prevent
its flowing out; three at the entrance to the arterial vein, which,
Reason Discourse |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: can come back with me to assist me if assistance is needed.
Also, be sure to tell Barunda's uncle never to lose
sight of the treasure," and Muda Saffir turned and
hastened back to the long-house.
As the men in the sampan headed the boat's bow up
stream again, von Horn ran along the jungle trail
beside the river and abreast of the paddlers. When he
thought that they were out of hearing of the long-house
he hailed the two. In startled surprise the men ceased paddling.
"Who are you and what do you want?" asked one.
"I am the man to whom the chest belongs," replied von Horn.
The Monster Men |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: pressed down upon the rumbling hills. Then the lightning flashed
again, somewhat brighter than before, and the crowd fancied that
it had showed a certain mistiness around the altar-stone on the
distant height. No one, however, had been using the telescope
at that instant. The whippoorwills continued their irregular pulsation,
and the men of Dunwich braced themselves tensely against some
imponderable menace with which the atmosphere seemed surcharged.
Without warning came those deep, cracked, raucous vocal sounds
which will never leave the memory of the stricken group who heard
them. Not from any human throat were they born, for the organs
of man can yield no such acoustic perversions. Rather would one
The Dunwich Horror |
