| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Glaucus/The Wonders of the Shore by Charles Kingsley: Nereus;
Hapless, whom never again upon quay or strand shall their mothers
Welcome with garlands and vows to the temples; but, wearily pining,
Gaze over island and main for the sails which return not; they,
heedless,
Sleep in soft bosoms for ever, and dream of the surge and the sea-
maids.
So they passed by in their joy, like a dream, on the murmuring
ripple."
Such a rhapsody may be somewhat out of order, even in a popular
scientific book; and yet one cannot help at moments envying the old
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: from a mere study of the omnipresent mural carvings. Our flashlight
photographs of those carvings will do much toward proving the
truth of what we are now disclosing, and it is lamentable that
we had not a larger film supply with us. As it was, we made crude
notebook sketches of certain salient features after all our films
were used up.
The building which we had entered was one of great
size and elaborateness, and gave us an impressive notion of the
architecture of that nameless geologic past. The inner partitions
were less massive than the outer walls, but on the lower levels
were excellently preserved. Labyrinthine complexity, involving
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Middlemarch by George Eliot: Perhaps the person who felt the most throbbing excitement at this
moment was Mary Garth, in the consciousness that it was she
who had virtually determined the production of this second will,
which might have momentous effects on the lot of some persons present.
No soul except herself knew what had passed on that final night.
"The will I hold in my hand," said Mr. Standish, who, seated at
the table in the middle of the room, took his time about everything,
including the coughs with which he showed a disposition to clear
his voice, "was drawn up by myself and executed by our deceased
friend on the 9th of August, 1825. But I find that there is
a subsequent instrument hitherto unknown to me, bearing date the
Middlemarch |
