| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: more or less like himself--though doubtless vaster and
more powerful--moved behind the veil of the visible world.
From that moment the belief in Magic and Demons and
Gods arose or slowly developed itself; and in the midst of
this turmoil of perilous and conflicting powers, he perceived
himself an alien and an exile, stricken with Fear, stricken
with the sense of Sin. If before, he had experienced
fear--in the kind of automatic way of self-preservation
in which the animals feel it--he now, with fevered self-
regard and excited imagination, experienced it in double or
treble degree. And if, before, he had been aware that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: and aeroplane in the present stage of evolution possess no
economic value. True, cross-country cruises by airship have been
inaugurated, and, up to a point, have proved popularly, if not
commercially, successful, while tentative efforts have been made
to utilise the aeroplane as a mail-carrier. Still, from the
view-point of the community at large aerial travel is as remote
as it was centuries ago.
It is somewhat interesting to observe how history is repeating
itself. When the Montgolfiers succeeded in lifting themselves
into the air by means of a vessel inflated with hot air, the new
vehicle was hailed not so much as one possessed of commercial
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: victims of spells. . . ."
"One of them, at least, speaks very strangely."
She dismissed the subject after a short silence. "Mr. Renouard, I
had a disappointment this morning. This mail brought me a letter
from the widow of the old butler - you know. I expected to learn
that she had heard from - from here. But no. No letter arrived
home since we left."
Her voice was calm. His jealousy couldn't stand much more of this
sort of talk; but he was glad that nothing had turned up to help
the search; glad blindly, unreasonably - only because it would keep
her longer in his sight - since she wouldn't give up.
Within the Tides |
