| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: IV. NEW ARMS FOR OLD ONES
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Such are the landscapes and method of modern war. It is more
difficult in its nature from war as it was waged in the
nineteenth century than that was from the nature of the phalanx
or the legion. The nucleus fact--when I talked to General Joffre
he was very insistent upon this point--is still as ever the
ordinary fighting man, but all the accessories and conditions of
his personal encounter with the fighting man of the other side
have been revolutionised in a quarter of a century. The fighting
together in a close disciplined order, shoulder to shoulder,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: in a small jet, but with a continuous flow.
An hour after leaving the cottage, James Starr and his two companions
had gone a distance of four miles. The engineer, urged by anxiety
and hope, walked on without noticing the length of the way.
He pondered over all that the old miner had told him, and mentally weighed
all the arguments which the latter had given in support of his belief.
He agreed with him in thinking that the continued emission
of carburetted hydrogen certainly showed the existence of a new
coal-seam. If it had been merely a sort of pocket, full of gas,
as it is sometimes found amongst the rock, it would soon have
been empty, and the phenomenon have ceased. But far from that.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: natural physiological systems; and achieved some hideous preliminary
results in the form of never-dying, artificially nourished tissue
obtained from the nearly hatched eggs of an indescribable tropical
reptile. Two biological points he was exceedingly anxious to settle
-- first, whether any amount of consciousness and rational action
be possible without the brain, proceeding from the spinal cord
and various nerve-centres; and second, whether any kind of ethereal,
intangible relation distinct from the material cells may exist
to link the surgically separated parts of what has previously
been a single living organism. All this research work required
a prodigious supply of freshly slaughtered human flesh -- and
Herbert West: Reanimator |
