| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: This again carries an observation glass fitted with an eye-piece
which can be turned in the vertical plane in the same manner as
that of the fore-sight. By means of this ingenious sighting
device it is possible to ascertain the range and angle of fire
very easily and speedily.
The weight of the special Krupp anti-aircraft field-piece,
exclusive of the protecting shield, is approximately identical
with that of the ordinary light artillery field-piece. It throws
a shell weighing 8.8 pounds with an initial velocity of about
2,066 feet per second.
Although the German armament manufacturers were among the first
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Helen of Troy And Other Poems by Sara Teasdale: To hear an instant, high above earth's stress,
The silent music of infinity?
The Return
I turned the key and opened wide the door
To enter my deserted room again,
Where thro' the long hot months the dust had lain.
Was it not lonely when across the floor
No step was heard, no sudden song that bore
My whole heart upward with a joyous pain?
Were not the pictures and the volumes fain
To have me with them always as before?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Moby Dick by Herman Melville: rare? What a shindy they are kicking up! Cook, go and talk to 'em;
tell 'em they are welcome to help themselves civilly, and in
moderation, but they must keep quiet. Blast me, if I can hear my own
voice. Away, cook, and deliver my message. Here, take this
lantern," snatching one from his sideboard; "now then, go and preach
to 'em!"
Sullenly taking the offered lantern, old Fleece limped across the
deck to the bulwarks; and then, with one hand dropping his light low
over the sea, so as to get a good view of his congregation, with the
other hand he solemnly flourished his tongs, and leaning far over the
side in a mumbling voice began addressing the sharks, while Stubb,
Moby Dick |
