| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Last War: A World Set Free by H. G. Wells: that made us. But the air no longer imprisons us, this round
planet is no longer chained to us like the ball of a galley
slave....
'In a little while men who will know how to bear the strange
gravitations, the altered pressures, the attenuated, unfamiliar
gases and all the fearful strangenesses of space will be
venturing out from this earth. This ball will be no longer enough
for us; our spirit will reach out.... Cannot you see how that
little argosy will go glittering up into the sky, twinkling and
glittering smaller and smaller until the blue swallows it up.
They may succeed out there; they may perish, but other men will
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: giver of the fete, and to whom General Kissoff had been
speaking in that tone of respect with which sovereigns alone
are usually addressed, wore the simple uniform of an officer
of chasseurs of the guard. This was not affectation on his
part, but the custom of a man who cared little for dress, his
contrasting strongly with the gorgeous costumes amid which
he moved, encircled by his escort of Georgians, Cossacks,
and Circassians -- a brilliant band, splendidly clad in the glit-
tering uniforms of the Caucasus.
This personage, of lofty stature, affable demeanor, and
physiognomy calm, though bearing traces of anxiety, moved
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske: Greek word for wolf sounded like the word for light, and thus
gave rise to the story of a light-deity who became a wolf,
seems to me quite inadmissible. Yet as far as such verbal
equivocations may have prevailed, they doubtless helped to
sustain the delusion.
Thus we need no longer regard our werewolf as an inexplicable
creature of undetermined pedigree. But any account of him
would be quite imperfect which should omit all consideration
of the methods by which his change of form was accomplished.
By the ancient Romans the werewolf was commonly called a
"skin-changer" or "turn-coat" (versipellis), and similar
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