| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Stories From the Old Attic by Robert Harris: "Don't I get anything for my wisdom?" demanded the youth.
"You have already received something much better than money,"
said the wise man.
The Man Who Believed in Miracles
Once upon a time a traveler arrived in a land quite like our
own, full of modern technology like cars and computers and whistling
teapots, but with these two differences: there were no television
sets and no airplanes. In fact, nothing at all had ever been seen
in the sky, not even a bird, and the only movies the people ever saw
were in the theaters.
The traveler stayed for about a month on the eastern shore where
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: "Pooh!" said Blount. "Now if I had a cousin like
you --"
"My cousin isn't to be married!" answered Alcide, laugh-
ing.
"So much the better," returned Blount, "for they speak
of difficulties arising between London and Pekin. Have
you no wish to go and see what is going on there?"
"By Jove, my dear Blount!" exclaimed Alcide Jolivet,
"I was just going to make the same proposal to you."
And that was how the two inseparables set off for China.
A few days after the ceremony, Michael and Nadia
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: "Thin and lanky."
"The executioner," said D'Artagnan and Aramis at the same
time.
"I can see nothing but his back," resumed Grimaud. "But
wait. He is moving; and if he has taken off his mask I shall
be able to see. Ah ---- "
And as if struck in the heart he let go the hook and dropped
with a groan.
"Did you see him?" they all asked.
Yes," said Grimaud, with his hair standing on end.
"The thin, spare man?"
Twenty Years After |
