| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The First Men In The Moon by H. G. Wells: and the like - in one of these it was that I and Bedford fought with the
Selenite butchers - and I have since seen balloons laden with meat
descending out of the upper dark. I have as yet scarcely learnt as much of
these things as a Zulu in London would learn about the British corn
supplies in the same time. It is clear, however, that these vertical
shafts and the vegetation of the surface must play an essential role in
ventilating and keeping fresh the atmosphere of the moon. At one time, and
particularly on my first emergence from my prison, there was certainly a
cold wind blowing down the shaft, and later there was a kind of sirocco
upward that corresponded with my fever. For at the end of about three
weeks I fell ill of an indefinable sort of fever, and in spite of sleep
The First Men In The Moon |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde: We love and die together.
DUCHESS
Oh, I have been
Guilty beyond all women, and indeed
Beyond all women punished. Do you think -
No, that could not be - Oh, do you think that love
Can wipe the bloody stain from off my hands,
Pour balm into my wounds, heal up my hurts,
And wash my scarlet sins as white as snow? -
For I have sinned.
GUIDO
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: the secret of all the operations for the defense of the town.
He thus held the situation in his hand, as it were. No one
in Irkutsk knew him, no one could snatch off his mask. He
resolved therefore to set to work without delay.
Indeed, time pressed. The town must be captured before
the arrival of the Russians from the North and East, and
that was only a question of a few days. The Tartars once
masters of Irkutsk, it would not be easy to take it again from
them. At any rate, even if they were obliged to abandon
it later, they would not do so before they had utterly de-
stroyed it, and before the head of the Grand Duke had
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