| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: But in the Crest Hill direction--the place looked extraordinarily
squat and ugly from above--there were knots and strings of
staring workmen everywhere--not one of them working, but all
agape. (But now I write it, it occurs to me that perhaps it was
their dinner hour; it was certainly near twelve.) I hung for a
moment or so enjoying the soar, then turned about to face a clear
stretch of open down, let the engine out to full speed and set my
rollers at work rolling in the net, and so tightening the
gas-bags. Instantly the pace quickened with the diminished
resistance...
In that moment before the bang I think I must have been really
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: through the room since I had been there; but I knew that two had
done so--Thurid, the black dator, and Dejah Thoris.
For a moment I paused uncertain as to which of the several
exits from the apartment would lead me upon the right path.
I tried to recollect the directions which I had heard Thurid
repeat to Solan, and at last, slowly, as though through a heavy fog,
the memory of the words of the First Born came to me:
"Follow a corridor, passing three diverging corridors upon the right;
then into the fourth right-hand corridor to where three corridors meet;
The Warlord of Mars |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The People That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: and the man we had searched a new world to find. They cut
saplings from the forest and laid a road into the swamp before
they could get us all out, and then we marched back to the city
of Jor the Galu chief, and there was great rejoicing when Ajor
came home again mounted upon the glossy back of the stallion Ace.
Tyler and Hollis and Short and all the rest of us Americans
nearly worked our jaws loose on the march back to the village,
and for days afterward we kept it up. They told me how they had
crossed the barrier cliffs in five days, working twenty-four
hours a day in three eight-hour shifts with two reliefs to each
shift alternating half-hourly. Two men with electric drills
The People That Time Forgot |
