| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: forever had he not been a Prince of Helium.
Above the mighty forests of Kaol we hovered until word from
Kulan Tith brought us to his single landing-tower, where all day
and half a night the vessels disembarked their crews. At the city
of Kaol we visited, cementing the new ties that had been formed
between Kaol and Helium, and then one long-to-be-remembered day we
sighted the tall, thin towers of the twin cities of Helium.
The people had long been preparing for our coming. The sky
was gorgeous with gaily trimmed fliers. Every roof within both
The Warlord of Mars |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Enemies of Books by William Blades: Mounted on stout card-board_. IN NICE PRESERVATION, L6 6_s_.
These beautiful letters have been cut from precious
MSS., and as specimens of early art are extremely
valuable, many of them being worth 15_s_. each."
Mr. Proeme is a man well known to the London dealers in old books.
He is wealthy, and cares not what he spends to carry out his
bibliographical craze, which is the collection of title pages.
These he ruthlessly extracts, frequently leaving the decapitated
carcase of the books, for which he cares not, behind him.
Unlike the destroyer Bagford, he has no useful object in view,
but simply follows a senseless kind of classification. For instance:
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: something strong and young and wild come out
of it, that laughed at care.
"Alexandra," he said as he approached her,
"I want to talk to you. Let's sit down by the
gooseberry bushes." He picked up her sack of
potatoes and they crossed the garden. "Boys
gone to town?" he asked as he sank down on
the warm, sun-baked earth. "Well, we have
made up our minds at last, Alexandra. We are
really going away."
O Pioneers! |
