| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: many instances the mounting of a gun is out of the question: it
becomes a greater menace to the machine than to the enemy.
The French aeronautical section of the military department
devoted considerable study to this subject, but found the problem
almost insurmount able. Monsieur Loiseau met with the greatest
measure of success, and his system is being practised in the
present campaign. This principle is essentially adapted to
tractor aeroplanes. Forward of the pilot a special position is
reserved for the gunner. A special mounting is provided towards
the prow, and upon the upper face of the body of the machine.
The gun mounting is disposed in such a manner that it is able to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: shall have what he has earned of sin; and he of them who managed to
aggravate it, for him is mighty woe.
Why did not, when ye heard it, the believing men and believing women
think good in themselves, and say, 'This is an obvious lie?' Why did
they not bring four witnesses to it? but since they did not bring
the witnesses, then they in God's eyes are the liars. And but for
God's grace upon you, and His mercy in this world and the next,
there would have touched you, for that which ye spread abroad,
mighty woe. When ye reported it with your tongues, and spake with your
mouths what ye had no knowledge of, and reckoned it a light thing,
while in God's eyes it was grave.
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Alkahest by Honore de Balzac: light had not thrown into relief her face, which she seemed to show in
preference to the rest of her person, it would still have been
impossible to escape riveting the attention exclusively upon it. Its
expression of stupefaction, which was cold and rigid despite hot tears
that were rolling from her eyes, would have struck the most
thoughtless mind. Nothing is more terrible to behold than excessive
grief that is rarely allowed to break forth, of which traces were left
on this woman's face like lava congealed about a crater. She might
have been a dying mother compelled to leave her children in abysmal
depths of wretchedness, unable to bequeath them to any human
protector.
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