| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: I take you for a fighting man, but I see no insignia
upon your harness. Can it be that you are a panthan?"
Now, these wandering soldiers of fortune are common
upon Barsoom, where most men love to fight. They sell
their services wherever war exists, and in the occasional
brief intervals when there is no organized warfare between
the red nations, they join one of the numerous expeditions
that are constantly being dispatched against the green men
in protection of the waterways that traverse the wilder
portions of the globe.
When their service is over they discard the metal of
Thuvia, Maid of Mars |
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: owning up that he was right about the western trip, and we all
agreed to get in touch by wireless at ten in the morning. If the
gale was then over, Lake would send a plane for the party at my
base. Just before retiring I dispatched a final message to the
Arkham with instructions about toning down the day’s news for
the outside world, since the full details seemed radical enough
to rouse a wave of incredulity until further substantiated.
III
None
of us, I imagine, slept very heavily or continuously that morning.
Both the excitement of Lake’s discovery and the mounting fury
At the Mountains of Madness |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw: disappoint him. What is left to him then but to curse the love he
can never win, and turn remorselessly to the gold? With that, he
will make short work of your golden age, and leave you lamenting
its lost thoughtlessness and sweetness.
In due time the gold of Klondyke will find its way to the great
cities of the world. But the old dilemma will keep continually
reproducing itself. The man who will turn his back on love, and
upon all the fruitful it, and will set himself single-heartedly
to gather gold in an exultant dream of wielding its Plutonic
powers, will find the treasure yielding quickly to his touch. But
few men will make this sacrifice voluntarily. Not until the
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