| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane: to him upon the still air, had made him tempo-
rarily regret war.
Various veterans had told him tales. Some
talked of gray, bewhiskered hordes who were
advancing with relentless curses and chewing
tobacco with unspeakable valor; tremendous
bodies of fierce soldiery who were sweeping
along like the Huns. Others spoke of tattered
and eternally hungry men who fired despondent
powders. "They'll charge through hell's fire an'
brimstone t' git a holt on a haversack, an' sech
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: him, and a steam launch alongside, and was told he must now leave
his brother and go elsewhere. "I cannot go like this," he cried.
"You must let me see my brother and the other old men" - a term of
courtesy. Knappe, who seems always to have been good-natured,
revised his orders, and consented not only to an interview, but to
allow Moli to continue to accompany the king. So these two were
carried to the man-of-war, and sailed many a day, still supposing
themselves bound for Samoa; and lo! she came to a country the like
of which they had never dreamed of, and cast anchor in the great
lagoon of Jaluit; and upon that narrow land the exiles were set on
shore. This was the part of his captivity on which he looked back
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: a vast bulk of dry land around the south pole, where it is evident
that some of the beings made experimental settlements, though
their main centers were transferred to the nearest sea bottom.
Later maps, which display the land mass as cracking and drifting,
and sending certain detached parts northward, uphold in a striking
way the theories of continental drift lately advanced by Taylor,
Wegener, and Joly.
With the upheaval of new land in the South
Pacific tremendous events began. Some of the marine cities were
hopelessly shattered, yet that was not the worst misfortune. Another
race - a land race of beings shaped like octopi and probably corresponding
At the Mountains of Madness |
