| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: as the tungsten contrivances of today. The process of unearthing
was slow and sordid -- it might have been gruesomely poetical
if we had been artists instead of scientists -- and we were glad
when our spades struck wood. When the pine box was fully uncovered,
West scrambled down and removed the lid, dragging out and propping
up the contents. I reached down and hauled the contents out of
the grave, and then both toiled hard to restore the spot to its
former appearance. The affair made us rather nervous, especially
the stiff form and vacant face of our first trophy, but we managed
to remove all traces of our visit. When we had patted down the
last shovelful of earth, we put the specimen in a canvas sack
Herbert West: Reanimator |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: A fitting motto for us indeed, and one that has its meaning to this
hour.
That same day of our farewell I rode with my father to Yarmouth.
My brother Geoffrey did not come with us, but we parted with kindly
words, and of this I am glad, for we never saw each other again.
No more was said between us as to Lily Bozard and our wooing of
her, though I knew well enough that so soon as my back was turned
he would try to take my place at her side, as indeed happened. I
forgive it to him; in truth I cannot blame him much, for what man
is there that would not have desired to wed Lily who knew her?
Once we were dear friends, Geoffrey and I, but when we ripened
Montezuma's Daughter |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: French too want metallurgical coal. It is more important for
civilisation, for the general goodwill of the Allies and for
Great Britain that these needs should be supplied than that
individual British money-owners or ship-owners should remain
sluggishly rich by insisting upon high security or high freights.
The control of British coal-mining and shipping is in the
national interests--for international interests--rather than for
the creation of that particularly passive, obstructive, and
wasteful type of wealth, the wealth of the mere profiteer, is as
urgent a necessity for the commercial welfare of France and Italy
and the endurance of the Great Alliance as it is for the well-
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