| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: so far, and so sharply did it impress me that the visions of fabulous
aeons faded suddenly away.
Again there were only the desert
and the evil moon and the shards of an unguessed past. I drew
close and paused, and cast the added light of my electric torch
over the tumbled pile. A hillock had blown away, leaving a low,
irregularly round mass of megaliths and smaller fragments some
forty feet across and from two to eight feet high.
From the
very outset I realized that there was some utterly unprecedented
quality about those stones. Not only was the mere number of them
Shadow out of Time |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome: Conference was still a secret. There was nothing about it in
the morning papers.
The meeting was in a smallish room, with a dais at one end,
in the old Courts of Justice built in the time of Catherine the
Second, who would certainly have turned in her grave if
she had known the use to which it was being put. Two
very smart soldiers of the Red Army were guarding the
doors. The whole room, including the floor, was decorated
in red. There were banners with "Long Live the Third
International" inscribed upon them in many languages. The
Presidium was on the raised dais at the end of the room,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: and auburn hair of the bowman.
After he had listened for a moment to a partial narration
of their escape from the Torquasians, he invited them within,
took them to his house and bade the servants there prepare
food for them.
As they waited in the low-ceiled, pleasant livingroom
of the farmhouse until the meal should be ready,
Carthoris drew his host into conversation that
he might learn his nationality, and thus the nation
under whose dominion lay the waterway where circumstance
had placed him.
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