| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne: reason. The answer came in the murmuring of the stream at my feet.
We breakfasted, and drank of this excellent chalybeate water. I felt
wonderfully stronger, and quite decided upon pushing on. Why should
not so firmly convinced a man as my uncle, furnished with so
industrious a guide as Hans, and accompanied by so determined a
nephew as myself, go on to final success? Such were the magnificent
plans which struggled for mastery within me. If it had been proposed
to me to return to the summit of Snæfell, I should have indignantly
declined.
Most fortunately, all we had to do was to descend.
"Let us start!" I cried, awakening by my shouts the echoes of the
Journey to the Center of the Earth |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: the whole of the region he had entered so reluctantly in response
to the urgent call.
Towards one o'clock Old Whateley gained
consciousness, and interrupted his wheezing to choke out a few
words to his grandson.
'More space, Willy, more space soon.
Yew grows - an' that grows faster. It'll be ready to serve ye
soon, boy. Open up the gates to Yog-Sothoth with the long chant
that ye'll find on page 751 of the complete edition, an' then
put a match to the prison. Fire from airth can't burn it nohaow.'
He was obviously quite mad. After a pause, during which the
The Dunwich Horror |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Common Sense by Thomas Paine: editions of this pamphlet, it is a negative proof, that either
the doctrine cannot be refuted, or, that the party in favour
of it are too numerous to be opposed. WHEREFORE, instead
of gazing at each other with suspicious or doubtful curiosity;
let each of us, hold out to his neighbour the hearty hand of
friendship, and unite in drawing a line, which, like an act of
oblivion shall bury in forgetfulness every former dissension.
Let the names of Whig and Tory be extinct; and let none other
be heard among us, than those of A GOOD CITIZEN,
AN OPEN AND RESOLUTE FRIEND, AND A VIRTUOUS SUPPORTER
OF THE RIGHTS OF MANKIND AND OF THE _FREE AND INDEPENDANT STATES OF AMERICA_.
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