| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Last War: A World Set Free by H. G. Wells: humming softly into the sky.
And with an equal speed atomic engines of various types invaded
industrialism. The railways paid enormous premiums for priority
in the delivery of atomic traction engines, atomic smelting was
embarked upon so eagerly as to lead to a number of disastrous
explosions due to inexperienced handling of the new power, and
the revolutionary cheapening of both materials and electricity
made the entire reconstruction of domestic buildings a matter
merely dependent upon a reorganisation of the methods of the
builder and the house-furnisher. Viewed from the side of the new
power and from the point of view of those who financed and
The Last War: A World Set Free |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: I again took up my weary and seemingly endless wandering
in quest of the elusive waterway.
At daybreak of the fifteenth day of my search I was overjoyed
to see the high trees that denoted the object of my search.
About noon I dragged myself wearily to the portals of a
huge building which covered perhaps four square miles
and towered two hundred feet in the air. It showed no
aperture in the mighty walls other than the tiny door at which
I sank exhausted, nor was there any sign of life about it.
I could find no bell or other method of making my presence
known to the inmates of the place, unless a small round
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lock and Key Library by Julian Hawthorne, Ed.: hardening the minds of those who assent, and partly by exciting the
passion of revenge in those who resist."
"You are wrong. The great drag-chain on the car of progress is the
faltering inconsistency of man. Weakness is more cruel than
sternness. Sentiment is more destructive than logic."
The arrival of Schwanthaler was timely, for my indignation was
rising. The sculptor received us with great cordiality, and in the
pleasure of the subsequent hour I got over to some extent the
irritation Bourgonef's talk had excited.
The next day I left Munich for the Tyrol. My parting with
Bourgonef was many degrees less friendly than it would have been a
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