| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hermione's Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis: Have you thought deeply o Interstellar Com-
munication?
It promises to be one of the great new problems.
The loveliest man talked to us about it the other
evening. "Interstellar Communication in Its Re-
lation to Recent Psychic Hypotheses" -- that's the
title; I wrote it down. I always take notes of a title
like that. It helps one to get to the heart of the
matter.
Interstellar Communication is wonderful -- simply WONDERFUL!
We're going to take up Mars soon.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: object to my back, and let the hook catch hold of my collar. Hands
now free, I awkwardly clambered down to the dusty floor, and prepared
to inspect my prize.
Kneeling in the gritty dust, I swung the
case around and rested it in front of me. My hands shook, and
I dreaded to draw out the book within almost as much as I longed
- and felt compelled - to do so. It had very gradually become
clear to me what I ought to find, and this realisation nearly
paralysed my faculties.
If the thing were there - and if I were
not dreaining - the implications would be quite beyond the power
Shadow out of Time |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: the earlier part of the morning. More lately, issuing from those
rocky and dangerous defiles, he had entered upon that great
plain, where the accursed cities provoked, in ancient days, the
direct and dreadful vengeance of the Omnipotent.
The toil, the thirst, the dangers of the way, were forgotten, as
the traveller recalled the fearful catastrophe which had
converted into an arid and dismal wilderness the fair and fertile
valley of Siddim, once well watered, even as the Garden of the
Lord, now a parched and blighted waste, condemned to eternal
sterility.
Crossing himself, as he viewed the dark mass of rolling waters,
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