| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: save only a small garrison for the captured black galley and such
spoils as had come from the jagged rock in the sea. They would
set out through the aft whenever he might wish, and once arrived
on Kadath a suitable train of ghouls would attend him in state
as he placed his petition before earth's gods in their onyx castle.
Moved by a gratitude and satisfaction beyond words, Carter made
plans with the ghoulish leaders for his audacious voyage. The
army would fly high, they decided, over hideous Leng with its
nameless monastery and wicked stone villages; stopping only at
the vast grey peaks to confer with the Shantak-frightening night-gaunts
whose burrows honeycombed their summits. They would then, according
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin: and productive; and its almost insular form gives it two
grand lines of communication by the rivers Parana and
Uruguay.
I was delayed here five days, and employed myself in examining
the geology of the surrounding country, which was
very interesting. We here see at the bottom of the cliffs,
beds containing sharks' teeth and sea-shells of extinct species,
passing above into an indurated marl, and from that
into the red clayey earth of the Pampas, with its calcareous
concretions and the bones of terrestrial quadrupeds. This
vertical section clearly tells us of a large bay of pure salt-
The Voyage of the Beagle |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott: early hour of the morning, in defiance of the weather, which was
misty and ungenial.
"The custom of a soldier," said the young nobleman to his
friends. "Many of them acquire habitual vigilance, and cannot
sleep after the early hour at which their duty usually commands
them to be alert."
Yet the explanation which Lord Woodville thus offered to the
company seemed hardly satisfactory to his own mind, and it was in
a fit of silence and abstraction that he waited the return of the
General. It took place near an hour after the breakfast bell had
rung. He looked fatigued and feverish. His hair, the powdering
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