| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells: contemporary things? Wasn't it my own phrase to speak of "that
greater mind in men, in which we are but moments and transitorily
lit cells?" Hadn't I known that the spirit of man still speaks like
a thing that struggles out of mud and slime, and that the mere
effort to speak means choking and disaster? Hadn't I known that we
who think without fear and speak without discretion will not come to
our own for the next two thousand years?
It was the last was most forgotten of all that faith mislaid.
Before mankind, in my vision that night, stretched new centuries of
confusion, vast stupid wars, hastily conceived laws, foolish
temporary triumphs of order, lapses, set-backs, despairs,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hamlet by William Shakespeare: with modestie enough, & likeliehood to lead it; as thus.
Alexander died: Alexander was buried: Alexander returneth
into dust; the dust is earth; of earth we make
Lome, and why of that Lome (whereto he was conuerted)
might they not stopp a Beere-barrell?
Imperiall Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay,
Might stop a hole to keepe the winde away.
Oh, that that earth, which kept the world in awe,
Should patch a Wall, t' expell the winters flaw.
But soft, but soft, aside; heere comes the King.
Enter King, Queene, Laertes, and a Coffin, with Lords attendant.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: out of a peculiar faint. This call - a long-distance one - was
later traced to a public booth in the North Station in Boston,
but no sign of the lean foreigner was ever unearthed.
When the
doctor reached my house he found me unconscious in the sitting
room - in an easy-chair with a table drawn up before it. On the
polished top were scratches showing where some heavy object had
rested. The queer machine was gone, nor was anything afterward
heard of it. Undoubtedly the dark, lean foreigner had taken it
away.
In the library grate were abundant ashes, evidently left
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