| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: to me oddly - as a measure of my sense of separation from the
normal world - that I did not even once look at my watch during
those hideous hours nderground.
Torch in hand, and with the
ominous case under one arm, I eventually found myself tiptoeing
in a kind of silent panic past the draught - giving abyss and
those lurking suggestions of prints. I lessened my precautions
as I climbed up the endless inclines, but could not shake off
a shadow of apprehension which I had not felt on the downward
journey.
I dreaded having to repass through the black basalt
Shadow out of Time |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne: Michel Ardan interfered, without giving the two enemies time to
say anything more.
"Thank heaven!" said he. "It is a happy thing that brave men
like you two did not meet sooner! we should now have been
mourning for one or other of you. But, thanks to Providence,
which has interfered, there is now no further cause for alarm.
When one forgets one's anger in mechanics or in cobwebs, it is
a sign that the anger is not dangerous."
Michel Ardan then told the president how the captain had been
found occupied.
"I put it to you now," said he in conclusion, "are two such good
From the Earth to the Moon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson: dwelling underground - possibly also the distillers of some
forgotten spirit? See Mr. Campbell's TALES OF THE WEST
HIGHLANDS.
CHRISTMAS AT SEA
THE sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand;
The decks were like a slide, where a seaman scarce could stand;
The wind was a nor'wester, blowing squally off the sea;
And cliffs and spouting breakers were the only things a-lee.
They heard the surf a-roaring before the break of day;
But 'twas only with the peep of light we saw how ill we lay.
We tumbled every hand on deck instanter, with a shout,
Ballads |
