| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The First Men In The Moon by H. G. Wells: principles of geometry, to begin with. He proposed to take some leading
proposition of Euclid's, and show by construction that its truth was known
to us, to demonstrate, for example, that the angles at the base of an
isosceles triangle are equal, and that if the equal sides be produced the
angles on the other side of the base are equal also, or that the square on
the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the
squares on the two other sides. By demonstrating our knowledge of these
things we should demonstrate our possession of a reasonable
intelligence... Now, suppose I ... I might draw the geometrical figure
with a wet finger, or even trace it in the air ..."
He fell silent. I sat meditating his words. For a time his wild hope of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson: disturbed by shouts of THE AMERICAN COMMODORE, and I found
that Austin had entered and lost about a bottle of sherry!
He turned with great composure and addressed me. 'I am
afraid I must look to you, Uncle Louis.' The Sunday School
racket is only an experiment which I took up at the request
of the late American Land Commissioner; I am trying it for a
month, and if I do as ill as I believe, and the boys find it
only half as tedious as I do, I think it will end in a month.
I have CARTE BLANCHE, and say what I like; but does any
single soul understand me?
Fanny is on the whole very much better. Lloyd has been under
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: if I were to state the number of years you would believe I lied."
Maskull looked at the phaen slowly. "In Ifdawn I met someone else
from Matterplay - a young man called Digrung. I absorbed him."
"You can't be telling me this out of vanity."
"It was a fearful crime. What will come of it?
Leehallfae gave a curious, wrinkled smile. "In Matterplay he will
stir inside you, for he smells the air. Already you have his
eyes.... I knew him.... Take care of yourself, or something more
startling may happen. Keep out of the water."
"This seems. to me a terrible valley, in which anything may happen."
"Don't torment yourself about Digrung. The valleys belong by right
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