| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Land that Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: separated eras, fusing some and leaving others untouched.
We ran along beside them for a matter of ten miles, arriving off
a broad cleft which led into what appeared to be another lake.
As we were in search of pure water, we did not wish to overlook
any portion of the coast, and so after sounding and finding that
we had ample depth, I ran the U-33 between head-lands into as
pretty a landlocked harbor as sailormen could care to see, with
good water right up to within a few yards of the shore. As we
cruised slowly along, two of the boches again saw what they
believed to be a man, or manlike creature, watching us from a
fringe of trees a hundred yards inland, and shortly after we
The Land that Time Forgot |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: easy to find a good opening for two doctors in company, but finally
the influence of the university secured us a practice in Bolton
-- a factory town near Arkham, the seat of the college. The Bolton
Worsted Mills are the largest in the Miskatonic Valley, and their
polyglot employees are never popular as patients with the local
physicians. We chose our house with the greatest care, seizing
at last on a rather run-down cottage near the end of Pond Street;
five numbers from the closest neighbour, and separated from the
local potter’s field by only a stretch of meadow land, bisected
by a narrow neck of the rather dense forest which lies to the
north. The distance was greater than we wished, but we could get
Herbert West: Reanimator |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx: Deputies in its camp; the Army had, by the election of three
under-officers, made a confession of democratic faith; and the leader of
the Mountain, Ledru-Rollin had in contrast to all the representatives of
the party of Order, been raised to the rank of the "parliamentary
nobility" by five Departments, who combined their suffrages upon him.
Accordingly, in view of the inevitable collisions of the royalists among
themselves, on the one hand, and of the whole party of Order with
Bonaparte, on the other, the Mountain seemed on May 29,1849, to have
before it all the elements of success. A fortnight later, it had lost
everything, its honor included.
Before we follow this parliamentary history any further, a few
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