| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Under the Andes by Rex Stout: with strips over the top. Then, with longer strips, we fastened up
the sides, passing the strips back and forth across the top, from
side to side, having first similarly secured the two ends. As a
final precaution, we passed broader strips around both top and
bottom, lashing them together in the center of the top. And there
was our raft, twelve feet square, over a foot deep, water-tight as
a town drunkard, and weighing not more than a hundred pounds. It
has taken me two minutes to tell it; it took us two weeks to do it.
But we discovered immediately that the four beams on the sides
and ends were not enough, for Desiree's weight alone caused the
skin to sag clear through in the center, though we had stretched it
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: And Hastings as he favours Edward's cause!
KING EDWARD.
Now, brother Richard, will you stand by us?
GLOSTER.
Ay, in despite of all that shall withstand you.
KING EDWARD.
Why, so! then am I sure of victory.
Now, therefore, let us hence; and lose no hour
Till we meet Warwick with his foreign pow'r.
[Exeunt.]
SCENE II. A Plain in Warwickshire
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Land that Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Take Tsa's hole, which lies above you."
The creature showed us the mouth of a black cave, but he kept at
a distance while he did it, and Lys followed me as I crawled in
to explore. I had matches with me, and in the light of one I
found a small cavern with a flat roof and floor which followed
the cleavage of the strata. Pieces of the roof had fallen at
some long-distant date, as was evidenced by the depth of the
filth and rubble in which they were embedded. Even a superficial
examination revealed the fact that nothing had ever been
attempted that might have improved the livability of the cavern;
nor, should I judge, had it ever been cleaned out. With considerable
The Land that Time Forgot |
