| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: but that the same familiar shapes now revealed a significance
they had formerly failed to make plain. Everything focussed toward
the north; every curve and asterism of the glittering sky became
part of a vast design whose function was to hurry first the eye
and then the whole observer onward to some secret and terrible
goal of convergence beyond the frozen waste that stretched endlessly
ahead. Carter looked toward the east where the great ridge of
barrier peaks had towered along all the length of Inquanok and
saw against the stars a jagged silhouette which told of its continued
presence. It was more broken now, with yawning clefts and fantastically
erratic pinnacles; and Carter studied closely the suggestive turnings
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: the past twelve months or so he had been a frequent visitor at
the Cooper house. At this time he was a broad-shouldered,
red-cheeked, stalwart fellow of twenty- six or twenty-eight. He
was a great social favorite, and possessed the added romantic
interest of having been aboard the Constitution when she fought
the Guerriere, and of having, with his own hands, touched the
match that fired the first gun of that great battle.
Mainwaring's mother and Eliza Cooper had always been intimate
friends, and the coming and going of the young man during his
leave of absence were looked upon in the house as quite a matter
of course. Half a dozen times a week he would drop in to execute
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne: To sum up--
1st. The cannon ought to be planted in a country situated
between 0@ and 28@ of N. or S. lat.
2nd. It ought to be pointed directly toward the zenith of the place.
3rd. The projectile ought to be propelled with an initial
velocity of 12,000 yards per second.
4th. It ought to be discharged at 10hrs. 46m. 40sec. of the 1st
of December of the ensuing year.
5th. It will meet the moon four days after its discharge,
precisely at midnight on the 4th of December, at the moment of
its transit across the zenith.
From the Earth to the Moon |
