| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: Paul's Churchyard; (2) at The Crown alehouse near Drury Lane; (3) at
The Apple Tree tavern near Covent Garden; (4) at The Rummer and
Grapes tavern, in Charnel Row, Westminster. That its principles
were brotherly love and good fellowship, which included in those
days port, sherry, claret, and punch; that it was founded on the
ground of mere humanity, in every sense of the word; being (as was
to be expected from the temper of the times) both aristocratic and
liberal, admitting to its ranks virtuous gentlemen "obliged," says
an old charge, "only to that religion wherein all men agree, leaving
their particular opinions to themselves: that is, to be good men
and true, or men of honour and honesty, by whatever denominations or
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs: lying silent and motionless, his wings dropping limply and his
great, round eyes staring blankly toward the ceiling. A brief
examination convinced Bradley that the thing was dead, and with
the conviction came an overwhelming sense of the dangers which
must now confront him; but how was he to escape?
His first thought was to find some means for concealing the
evidence of his deed and then to make a bold effort to escape.
Stepping to the second door he pushed it gently open and peered
in upon what seemed to be a store room. In it was a litter of
cloth such as the Wieroos' robes were fashioned from, a number
of chests painted blue and white, with white hieroglyphics
Out of Time's Abyss |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Straight Deal by Owen Wister: to set enmity between ourselves and Japan, ourselves and Mexico, France
and England, France and Italy, England and Russia, between everybody and
everybody else all the world over, in the sacred name and for the sacred
sake of the Kaiser. Thus has his breed, since we occupied Coblenz, run to
the French soldiers with lies about us and then run to us with lies about
the French soldiers, overlooking in its providential stupidity the fact
that we and the French would inevitably compare notes. Thus too is his
breed, at the moment I write these words, infesting and poisoning the
earth with a propaganda that remains as coherent and as systematically
directed as ever it was before the papers began to assure us that there
was nothing left of the Hohenzollern government.
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