| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ebb-Tide by Stevenson & Osbourne: "'Which from private interests would remain unknown,"'
read Herrick, over his shoulder. 'What may that mean?'
'It should mean pearls,' said Davis. 'A pearling island the
government don't know about? That sounds like real estate. Or
suppose it don't mean anything. Suppose it's just an island; I
guess we could fill up with fish, and cocoanuts, and native
stuff, and carry out the Samoa scheme hand over fist. How long
did he say it was before they raised Anaa) Five hours, I think?'
'Four or five,' said Herrick.
Davis stepped to the door. 'What breeze had you that time
you made Anaa, Uncle Ned?' said he.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: my thews to steel. Even such giants as Ghak the Hairy
One have praised my strength; but to it is added
another quality which they lack--science.
The man upon me held me down awkwardly, leaving
me many openings--one of which I was not slow in
taking advantage of, so that almost before the fellow
knew that I was awake I was upon my feet with my
arms over his shoulders and about his waist and had
hurled him heavily over my head to the hard rubble of
the beach, where he lay quite still.
In the instant that I arose I had seen the hyaenodon
Pellucidar |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: Davys' and Thicknesse's eighteenth-century treatises, and such
fairly modern authorities as Blair, van Marten and Kluber's script
itself, and in time became convinced that he had to deal with
one of those subtlest and most ingenious of cryptograms, in which
many separate lists of corresponding letters are arranged like
the multiplication table, and the message built up with arbitrary
key-words known only to the initiated. The older authorities seemed
rather more helpful than the newer ones, and Armitage concluded
that the code of the manuscript was one of great antiquity, no
doubt handed down through a long line of mystical experimenters.
Several times he seemed near daylight, only to be set back by
The Dunwich Horror |
