| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: this strange world.
Slowly and with majestic grace the battleship dropped until
she rested on the water. Her great propellers had been
drawn and housed during our descent of the shaft and in
their place had been run out the smaller but more powerful
water propellers. As these commenced to revolve the
ship took up its journey once more, riding the new element
as buoyantly and as safely as she had the air.
Phaidor and I were dumbfounded. Neither had either heard or
dreamed that such a world existed beneath the surface of Barsoom.
Nearly all the vessels we saw were war craft. There were
The Gods of Mars |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Child of Storm by H. Rider Haggard: Then a roar--a rolling roar such as at that time I had never heard: the
thunder of the roar of the meeting shields--and a flash--a swift,
simultaneous flash, the flash of the lightning of the stabbing spears.
Up went the cry of:
_"Kill, Amawombe, kill!"_ answered by another cry of:
_"Toss, Usutu, toss!"_
After that, what happened? Heaven knows alone--or at least I do not.
But in later years Mr. Osborn, afterwards the resident magistrate at
Newcastle, in Natal, who, being young and foolish in those days, had
swum his horse over the Tugela and hidden in a little kopje quite near
to us in order to see the battle, told me that it looked as though some
Child of Storm |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: hammer. 5thly. She lies down on the
ground, and suffers a stone of 1500 pounds
weight to be laid on her breasts, in which
position she speaks to the audience, and
drinks a glass of wine, then throws the
stone off her body by mere strength, without
any assistance. Lastly, she lifts an anvil
of 200 pound weight from the ground
with her own hair. To begin exactly at six
o'clock.
At present the stunt with the two chairs and
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