| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Off on a Comet by Jules Verne: that we are following an orbit decidedly elliptical, although we have not yet
the material to determine its eccentricity."
"As the writer adheres to the appellation of Gallia, do you not think,"
asked the count, "that we might call these new waters the Gallian Sea?"
"There can be no reason to the contrary, count," replied the lieutenant;
"and as such I will insert it upon my new chart."
"Our friend," said Servadac, "seems to be more and more gratified
with the condition of things; not only has he adopted our motto,
'_Nil desperandum!_' but see how enthusiastically he has wound up
with his '_Enchante!_'"
The conversation dropped.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: proved his point that rational life can be restored, and had sought
new worlds to conquer by experimenting on the reanimation of detached
parts of bodies. He had wild and original ideas on the independent
vital properties of organic cells and nerve-tissue separated from
natural physiological systems; and achieved some hideous preliminary
results in the form of never-dying, artificially nourished tissue
obtained from the nearly hatched eggs of an indescribable tropical
reptile. Two biological points he was exceedingly anxious to settle
-- first, whether any amount of consciousness and rational action
be possible without the brain, proceeding from the spinal cord
and various nerve-centres; and second, whether any kind of ethereal,
Herbert West: Reanimator |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells: and confusing, and a thin hail smote gustily at my face as
I drove down the slope.
At first I regarded little but the road before me, and then
abruptly my attention was arrested by something that was
moving rapidly down the opposite slope of Maybury Hill. At
first I took it for the wet roof of a house, but one flash
following another showed it to be in swift rolling movement.
It was an elusive vision--a moment of bewildering darkness, and
then, in a flash like daylight, the red masses of the Orphanage
near the crest of the hill, the green tops of the pine trees,
and this problematical object came out clear and sharp and
War of the Worlds |
