| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: Arya,
all our foes, the Dasyus.
Our gain was that to Trta of our party thou gavest up Tvastar's
son
Visvarupa.
20 He cast down Arbuda what time his vigour was strengthened
by
libations poured by Trta.
Indra sent forth his whirling wheel like Surya, and aided by
the
Angirases rent Vala.
The Rig Veda |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Egmont by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: you nothing? Count Egmont! Honour to Count Egmont!
Egmont. Here, too! What are you about? Burgher against burgher! Does
not even the neighbourhood of our royal mistress oppose a barrier to this
frenzy? Disperse yourselves, and go about your business. 'Tis a bad sign
when you thus keep holiday on working days. How did the disturbance
begin?
(The tumult gradually subsides, and the people gather around Egmont.)
Carpenter. They are fighting about their privileges.
Egmont. Which they will forfeit through their own folly,--and who are
you? You seem honest people.
Carpenter. 'Tis our wish to be so.
Egmont |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: have gone mad."
Carthoris turned quickly toward the Lotharian. The fellow
was smiling broadly.
"I thought that you just said that there were no soldiers
in Lothar," said the Heliumite, with a gesture toward
the guardsmen. "What are these?"
"Ask Tario," replied the other. "We shall soon be before him."
Nor was it long before they entered a lofty chamber
at one end of which a man reclined upon a rich couch
that stood upon a high dais.
As the trio approached, the man turned dreamy eyes
Thuvia, Maid of Mars |
