| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: five minutes I made up my mind. I sent for my junior partners,
for I had taken in two, and told them that I intended to retire
at once. They were dismayed both at my loss, for really I was the
firm, and because, as they pointed out, if I withdrew all my
capital, there would not be sufficient left to enable them to
carry on.
One of them, a blunt and honest man, said to my face that it
would be dishonourable of me to do so. I was inclined to answer
him sharply, then remembered that his words were true.
"Very well," I said, "I will leave you œ600,000 on which you
shall pay me five per cent interest, but no share of the
When the World Shook |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: meteorological happening, but it was fairly clear to me that a
wind shifting between north and northeast was gathering strength,
and after I had satisfied myself by a series of entirely
successful expansions and contractions of the real air-worthiness
of Lord Roberts B, I stopped the engine to save my petrol, and
let the monster drift, checking its progress by the dim landscape
below. My uncle lay quite still behind me, saying little and
staring in front of him, and I was left to my own thoughts and
sensations.
My thoughts, whatever they were, have long since faded out of
memory, and my sensations have merged into one continuous memory
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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: because of their spontaneous origin, they regard themselves as the
favoured children of Faceny. But when they come here to find him,
they die at once."
"I think this one is the last of the race. But whom do I speak to?"
"I am Corpang. Who are you, where do you come from, and what are you
doing here?"
"My name is Maskull. My home is on the other side of the universe.
As for what I am doing here - I accompanied Leehallfae, that phaen,
from Matterplay."
"But a man doesn't accompany a phaen out of friendship. What do you
want in Threal?"
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