| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: evidently occurred to Perry previously, for he was already
a hundred paces away, and with each second his prodigious
bounds increased the distance. I had never guessed
what latent speed possibilities the old gentleman possessed.
I saw that he was headed toward a little point of the
forest which ran out toward the sea not far from where we
had been standing, and as the mighty creature, the sight
of which had galvanized him into such remarkable action,
was forging steadily toward me. I set off after Perry,
though at a somewhat more decorous pace. It was evident
that the massive beast pursuing us was not built for speed,
At the Earth's Core |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: young man turning up in a most miraculous fashion,
and at the head of the terrible creatures of the inner campong.
The riddle was too deep for her--she could not solve it;
and then her thoughts were interrupted by the thin,
brown hand of Rajah Muda Saffir as it encircled her
waist and drew her toward him. Upon the evil lips were
hot words of passion. The girl wrenched herself from
the man's embrace, and, with a little scream of terror,
sprang to her feet, and as Muda Saffir arose to grasp
her again she struck him full in the face with one small,
clenched fist.
The Monster Men |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: A great proportion of this sort of man, this energetic directive
sort of man in England, is thinking socialism to-day. They may
not be saying socialism, but they are thinking it. When labour
begins to realise what is adrift it will be divided between two
things: between appreciative co-operation, for which guild
socialism in particular has prepared its mind, and traditional
suspicion. I will not over to guess here which will prevail.
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The impression I have of the present mental process in the
European communities is that while the official class and the
/rentier/ class is thinking very poorly and inadequately and
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