| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Redheaded Outfield by Zane Grey: come into its own again. Then next day Cairns
won a close, exciting game, and following that, on
the third day, the matchless Rube toyed with the
Torontos. Eleven straight games won! I was in
the clouds, and never had I seen so beautiful a
light as shone in Milly's eyes.
From that day The Honeymoon Trip of the
Worcester Baseball Club, as the newspapers
heralded it--was a triumphant march. We won
two out of three games at Montreal, broke even
with the hard-fighting Bisons, took three straight
The Redheaded Outfield |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: and he betrayed his degenerating fibre by ordering the masonry
left intact and plastered over. Thus it remained till that final
hellish night; part of the walls of the secret laboratory. I speak
of West’s decadence, but must add that it was a purely mental
and intangible thing. Outwardly he was the same to the last --
calm, cold, slight, and yellow-haired, with spectacled blue eyes
and a general aspect of youth which years and fears seemed never
to change. He seemed calm even when he thought of that clawed
grave and looked over his shoulder; even when he thought of the
carnivorous thing that gnawed and pawed at Sefton bars.
The
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: death, by his cousin, Claude Formy, which is well worth the perusal
of any man, wise or foolish. Many interesting details beside, I owe
to the courtesy of Professor Planchon, of Montpellier, author of a
discourse on "Rondelet et vies Disciples," which appeared, with a
learned and curious Appendix, in the "Montpellier Medical" for 1866.
{8} This lecture was given at Cambridge in 1869.
{9} This lecture was given at Cambridge in 1869.
{10} I owe this account of Bloet's--which appears to me the only
one trustworthy--to the courtesy and erudition of Professor Henry
Morley, who finds it quoted from Bloet's "Acroama," in the
"Observationum Medicarum Rariorum," lib. vii., of John Theodore
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