| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: starting from Pilbarra - but all that can be talked over later.
Roughly the stones lie at a point about 22° 3' 14" South Latitude,
125° 0' 39" East Longitude. The climate is tropical, and the desert
conditions are trying.
I shall welcome further correspondence
upon this subject, and am keenly eager to assist in any plan you
may devise. After studying your articles I am deeply impressed
with the profound significance of the whole matter. Dr. Boyle
will write later. When rapid communication is needed, a cable
to Perth can be relayed by wireless.
Hoping profoundly for an
Shadow out of Time |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Statesman by Plato: there will never be any comparison of either with the mean.
YOUNG SOCRATES: True.
STRANGER: And would not this doctrine be the ruin of all the arts and
their creations; would not the art of the Statesman and the aforesaid art
of weaving disappear? For all these arts are on the watch against excess
and defect, not as unrealities, but as real evils, which occasion a
difficulty in action; and the excellence or beauty of every work of art is
due to this observance of measure.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly.
STRANGER: But if the science of the Statesman disappears, the search for
the royal science will be impossible.
Statesman |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: undoubtedly have heard a shot fired so near his domicile, in spite
of the noise occasioned by the high wind. There would have been
sufficient time for Mrs. Bernauer to have reached the place of the
murder between the putting out of the lamp and the firing of the
shot. But perhaps she may have rested quietly in her room; she
may have been only the inciter or the accomplice of the deed. But
at all events, she knew something about it, she was in some way
connected with it.
Muller drew a deep breath. He felt much easier now that he had
arranged his thoughts and marshalled in orderly array all the facts
he had already gathered. There was nothing to do now but to follow
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