| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: The tramp who had plumbed the depths of the creek's foot
of water and two feet of soft mud was crawling ashore.
"Whadda YOU want now?" inquired Billy Byrne. "A piece
o' soap?"
"I'll get youse yet," spluttered the moist one through his
watery whiskers.
"Ferget it," admonished Billy, "an' hit the trail." He pointed
toward the railroad right of way. "An' you, too, John L," he
added turning to the other victim of his artistic execution, who
was now sitting up. "Hike!"
Mumbling and growling the two unwashed shuffled away,
The Mucker |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Timaeus by Plato: the most obtuse of plane angles; and out of the combination of these four
angles arises the first solid form which distributes into equal and similar
parts the whole circle in which it is inscribed. The second species of
solid is formed out of the same triangles, which unite as eight equilateral
triangles and form one solid angle out of four plane angles, and out of six
such angles the second body is completed. And the third body is made up of
120 triangular elements, forming twelve solid angles, each of them included
in five plane equilateral triangles, having altogether twenty bases, each
of which is an equilateral triangle. The one element (that is, the
triangle which has its hypotenuse twice the lesser side) having generated
these figures, generated no more; but the isosceles triangle produced the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Scarce was his back turned toward the giant than the
short-sword of the latter was plunged beneath his left
shoulder blade, straight through his heart.
Voiceless, the soldier sank in his tracks--stone dead.
Quickly the murderer dragged the corpse into the black
shadows within the hangar. Then he returned to the flier.
Drawing a cunningly wrought key from his pocket-pouch,
he removed the cover of the right-hand dial of the
controlling destination compass. For a moment he
studied the construction of the mechanism beneath.
Then he returned the dial to its place, set the pointer,
Thuvia, Maid of Mars |
