| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: phalanxes like wild boars through tufts of grass; they plucked up the
stakes of the camp with their trunks, and traversed it from one end to
the other, overthrowing the tents with their breasts. All the
Barbarians had fled. They were hiding themselves in the hills
bordering the valley by which the Carthaginians had come.
The victorious Hanno presented himself before the gates of Utica. He
had a trumpet sounded. The three Judges of the town appeared in the
opening of the battlements on the summit of a tower.
But the people of Utica would not receive such well-armed guests.
Hanno was furious. At last they consented to admit him with a feeble
escort.
Salammbo |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs: not entirely lack apparel as did most of them.
A soft hide fell from her left shoulder to just below her left
hip on one side and almost to her right knee on the other, a
loose girdle was about her waist, and golden ornaments such as he
had seen in the blue-and-white chest encircled her arms and legs,
while a golden fillet with a triangular diadem bound her heavy
hair above her brows. Her skin was white as from long confinement
within doors; but it was clear and fine. Her figure, but partially
concealed by the soft deerskin, was all curves of symmetry and
youthful grace, while her features might easily have been the envy
of the most feted of Continental beauties.
Out of Time's Abyss |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: The knowledge that he lies.
Not one of us but had some pearls
And flung them to the swine,
Not one of us but had some gift--
Some spark of fire divine--
Each might have been God's minister
In the temple of some art--
Each feels his gift perverted move
Wormlike through his dry heart.
If God called Azrael to Him now
And bade Death bend the bow
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