| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: his guest, as Don Guzman chatted away about his grandfather's hunts
of innocent women and children, murders of caciques and burnings
alive of guides, "pour encourager les autres," without, seemingly,
the least feeling that the victims were human beings or subjects
for human pity; anything, in short, but heathen dogs, enemies of
God, servants of the devil, to be used by the Christian when he
needed, and when not needed killed down as cumberers of the ground.
But Don Guzman was a most finished gentleman nevertheless; and told
many a good story of the Indies, and told it well; and over and
above his stories, he had among his baggage two books,--the one
Antonio Galvano's "Discoveries of the World," a mine of winter
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: ground plan roughly suggested modern fortifications. The builders
had made constant and expert use of the principle of the arch,
and domes had probably existed in the city’s heyday.
The whole
tangle was monstrously weathered, and the glacial surface from
which the towers projected was strewn with fallen blocks and immemorial
debris. Where the glaciation was transparent we could see the
lower parts of the gigantic piles, and we noticed the ice-preserved
stone bridges which connected the different towers at varying
distances above the ground. On the exposed walls we could detect
the scarred places where other and higher bridges of the same
At the Mountains of Madness |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: had arrived at the Fort. Col. Zane had given Isaac one of his pack horses.
This animal carried blankets, clothing, and food which insured comparative
comfort in the long ride through the wilderness.
"We will follow the old trail until we reach the hickory swale," Isaac was
saying to the Colonel, "and then we will turn off and make for the river. Once
across the Ohio we can make the trip in two days."
"I think you'll make it all right," said Col. Zane.
"Even if I do meet Indians I shall have no fear, for I have a protector here,"
answered Isaac as he led Myeerah's pony to the step.
"Good-bye, Myeerah; he is yours, but do not forget he is dear to us," said
Betty, embracing and kissing the Indian girl.
Betty Zane |
