| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: the Chilterns, all away to Ipsden and Nettlebed, and so on across
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, and into Hertfordshire; and on
again to Royston and Cambridge, while below them lies the Vale of
Aylesbury; you can just see the beginning of it on their left. A
pleasant land are those hills, and wealthy; full of noble houses
buried in the deep beech-woods, which once were a great forest,
stretching in a ring round the north of London, full of deer and
boar, and of wild bulls too, even as late as the twelfth century,
according to the old legend of Thomas e Becket's father and the
fair Saracen, which you have often heard.
I know. But how are you going to get through the chalk hills? Is
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: Look at the old dog--carved out of a ship's timber--as talkative
as a fish--grim as a gutted wreck. That's the man for me. All the
others there are married, or going to be, or ought to be, or
sorry they ain't. Every man jack of them has a petticoat in tow--
dash me! Never heard in all my travels such a jabber about wives
and kids. Hurry up with your dunnage--below there! Aye! I had no
difficulty in getting them to clear out from the yacht. They
never saw a pair of gents stolen before--you understand. It upset
all their little notions of what a stranding means, hereabouts.
Not that mine aren't mixed a bit, too--and yet I've seen a thing
or two."
The Rescue |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: at 4 A.M., and the first wireless message we received came only
two hours later, when Lake spoke of descending and starting a
small-scale ice-melting and bore at a point some three hundred
miles away from us. Six hours after that a second and very excited
message told of the frantic, beaver-like work whereby a shallow
shaft had been sunk and blasted, culminating in the discovery
of slate fragments with several markings approximately like the
one which had caused the original puzzlement.
Three hours later
a brief bulletin announced the resumption of the flight in the
teeth of a raw and piercing gale; and when I dispatched a message
At the Mountains of Madness |
