| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: belonging to cowboys who were riding after stock, and the third
at a small cluster of adobe and stone houses constituting a
hamlet the driver called Longstreth, named after the Colonel.
From that point on to Fairdale there were only a few ranches,
each one controlling great acreage.
Early in the afternoon from a ridge-top Duane sighted Fairdale,
a green patch in the mass of gray. For the barrens of Texas it
was indeed a fair sight. But he was more concerned with its
remoteness from civilization than its beauty. At that time, in
the early seventies, when the vast western third of Texas was a
wilderness, the pioneer had done wonders to settle there and
The Lone Star Ranger |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson: from London, its people closely akin, its language the same in all
essentials with the English - of which I will go bail he knows
nothing. His ignorance of the sister kingdom cannot be described;
it can only be illustrated by anecdote. I once travelled with a
man of plausible manners and good intelligence - a University man,
as the phrase goes - a man, besides, who had taken his degree in
life and knew a thing or two about the age we live in. We were
deep in talk, whirling between Peterborough and London; among other
things, he began to describe some piece of legal injustice he had
recently encountered, and I observed in my innocence that things
were not so in Scotland. "I beg your pardon," said he, "this is a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: penalties attached to displacements of future Great Race minds
by the moribund.
Through projection, arrangements were made
to inflict these penalties on the offending minds in their new
future bodies - and sometimes forced reëxchanges were effected.
Complex cases of the displacement of exploring or already captive
minds by minds in various regions of the past had been known and
carefully rectified. In every age since the discovery of mind
projection, a minute but well-recognised element of the population
consisted of Great Race minds from past ages, sojourning for a
longer or shorter while.
Shadow out of Time |
