| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Human Drift by Jack London: was it depended upon that the Pilgrim carried only one, and that
one, going wrong at the outset, was never used again. A navigator
of the present would be aghast if asked to voyage for two years,
from Boston, around the Horn to California, and back again,
without a chronometer. In those days such a proceeding was a
matter of course, for those were the days when dead reckoning was
indeed something to reckon on, when running down the latitude was
a common way of finding a place, and when lunar observations were
direly necessary. It may be fairly asserted that very few
merchant officers of to-day ever make a lunar observation, and
that a large percentage are unable to do it.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: out by and by who it was that was doing the lugging,
and THEY know best why they swore here that they took it
for Uncle Silas by the gait--which it WASN'T, and they
knowed it when they swore to that lie.
"A man out in the moonlight DID see a murdered person
put under ground in the tobacker field--but it wasn't
Uncle Silas that done the burying. He was in his bed
at that very time.
"Now, then, before I go on, I want to ask you if you've
ever noticed this: that people, when they're thinking deep,
or when they're worried, are most always doing something
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: at sea as well as on land. What motive prompted the hybrid crew
to order back the Emma as they sailed about with their hideous
idol? What was the unknown island on which six of the Emma's crew
had died, and about which the mate Johansen was so secretive?
What had the vice-admiralty's investigation brought out, and what
was known of the noxious cult in Dunedin? And most marvellous
of all, what deep and more than natural linkage of dates was this
which gave a malign and now undeniable significance to the various
turns of events so carefully noted by my uncle?
March 1st -
or February 28th according to the International Date Line - the
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