| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: erent.
At the point where I landed the shore was quite
low. A forest of pale, scrubby ferns ran down almost to
the beach. Here I dragged up the dugout, hiding it well
within the vegetation, and with some loose rocks built a
cairn upon the beach to mark my cache. Then I turned
my steps toward the Thurian village.
As I proceeded I began to speculate upon the possible
actions of Raja when we should enter the presence of
other men than myself. The brute was padding softly at
my side, his sensitive nose constantly atwitch and his
Pellucidar |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: daown offen the aidges onto the graoun' whar the side timbers
is blowed away. An' they's awful kinder marks in the yard, tew
- great raound marks bigger raound than a hogshead, an' all sticky
with stuff like is on the browed-up haouse. Cha'ncey he says they
leads off into the medders, whar a great swath wider'n a barn
is matted daown, an' all the stun walls tumbled every whichway
wherever it goes.
'An' he says, says he, Mis' Corey, as haow
he sot to look fer Seth's caows, frightened ez he was an' faound
'em in the upper pasture nigh the Devil's Hop Yard in an awful
shape. Haff on 'em's clean gone, an' nigh haff o' them that's
The Dunwich Horror |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: strides; the disciples of Heracleitus are most energetic upholders of the
doctrine.
SOCRATES: Then we are the more bound, my dear Theodorus, to examine the
question from the foundation as it is set forth by themselves.
THEODORUS: Certainly we are. About these speculations of Heracleitus,
which, as you say, are as old as Homer, or even older still, the Ephesians
themselves, who profess to know them, are downright mad, and you cannot
talk with them on the subject. For, in accordance with their text-books,
they are always in motion; but as for dwelling upon an argument or a
question, and quietly asking and answering in turn, they can no more do so
than they can fly; or rather, the determination of these fellows not to
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