| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: and the tower where S'gg'ha, the captive mind from the star-headed
vegetable carnivores of Antarctica, had chiselled certain pictures
on the blank spaces of the walls?
Would the passage at the second
level down, to the hall of the alien minds, be still unchoked
and traversable? In that hall the captive mind of an incredible
entity - a half-plastic denizen of the hollow interior of an unknown
trans-Plutonian planet eighteen million years in the future -
had kept a certain thing which it had modelled from clay.
I
shut my eyes and put my hand to my head in a vain, pitiful effort
Shadow out of Time |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Options by O. Henry: the name of a town, and Jacks would tell you the front names of three
prominent citizens before you could close it again. He spoke
patronizingly and even disrespectfully of Broadway, Beacon Hill,
Michigan, Euclid, and Fifth avenues, and the St. Louis Four Courts.
Compared with him as a cosmopolite, the Wandering Jew would have
seemed a mere hermit. He had learned everything the world could teach
him, and he would tell you about it.
I hate to be reminded of Pollock's Course of Time, and so do you; but
every time I saw Jacks I would think of the poet's description of
another poet by the name of G. G. Byron who "Drank early; deeply
drank--drank draughts that common millions might have quenched; then
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Captain Stormfield by Mark Twain: comes. Lighten ship! Lively, now, lively, men! Heave the whole
cargo overboard!"
Peters, look me in the eye, and be calm. I found out, over there,
that a kazark is exactly the bulk of a HUNDRED AND SIXTY-NINE
WORLDS LIKE OURS! They hove all that load overboard. When it fell
it wiped out a considerable raft of stars just as clean as if
they'd been candles and somebody blowed them out. As for the race,
that was at an end. The minute she was lightened the comet swung
along by me the same as if I was anchored. The captain stood on
the stern, by the after-davits, and put his thumb to his nose and
sung out -
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