| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Marie by H. Rider Haggard: Kambula again living, though after the battle of Blood River I saw him
dead.
Once over the Tugela I rode forward for half a mile or so till I was
clear of the bush and reeds that grew down to the water, fearing lest
the Zulus should follow and take me back to Dingaan to explain my rather
imprudent message. Seeing no signs of them, I halted, a desolate
creature in a desolate country which I did not know, wondering what I
should do and whither I should ride. Then it was that there happened
one of the strangest experiences of all my adventurous life.
As I sat dejectedly upon my horse, which was also dejected, amidst some
tumbled rocks that at a distant period in the world's history had formed
Marie |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: action assume the usual magnetic state of iron or loadstone.'
Faraday subsequently used this term in a different sense from that
here given, as will immediately appear.
[2] The power of double refraction conferred on the centre of a
glass rod, when it is caused to sound the fundamental note due to
its longitudinal vibration, and the absence of the same power in the
case of vibrating air (enclosed in a glass organ-pipe), seems to be
analogous to the presence and absence of Faraday's effect in the
same two substances.
Faraday never, to my knowledge, attempted to give, even in
conversation, a picture of the molecular condition of his heavy
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe: a relief.
"And you have not seen it?" he said abruptly, after having
stared about him for some moments in silence--"you have
not then seen it?--but, stay! you shall." Thus speaking, and
having carefully shaded his lamp, he hurried to one of the
casements, and threw it freely open to the storm.
The impetuous fury of the entering gust nearly lifted us
from our feet. It was, indeed, a tempestuous yet sternly
beautiful night, and one wildly singular in its terror and its
beauty. A whirlwind had apparently collected its force in our
vicinity; for there were frequent and violent alterations in the
The Fall of the House of Usher |
