| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs: might have done in the bar-room of some publichouse at home.
Sinclair was standing guard. The others were listening to
Brady's description of traffic congestion at the Rush Street
bridge during the rush hour at night. The fire crackled cheerily.
The owners of the yellow-green eyes raised their frightful chorus
to the heavens. Conditions seemed again to have returned to normal.
And then, as though the hand of Death had reached out and touched
them all, the five men tensed into sudden rigidity.
Above the nocturnal diapason of the teeming jungle sounded a
dismal flapping of wings and over head, through the thick night,
a shadowy form passed across the diffused light of the flaring
Out of Time's Abyss |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Golden Threshold by Sarojini Naidu: O Death, I cannot die!
THE INDIAN GIPSY
In tattered robes that hoard a glittering trace
Of bygone colours, broidered to the knee,
Behold her, daughter of a wandering race,
Tameless, with the bold falcon's agile grace,
And the lithe tiger's sinuous majesty.
With frugal skill her simple wants she tends,
She folds her tawny heifers and her sheep
On lonely meadows when the daylight ends,
Ere the quick night upon her flock descends
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: it. So help me, I will! With a thousand men to lay me by the
heels, looking high and low, what do I want with your shack? I
want to get out of here--away! away! away! Cursed swine! I've
half a mind to go back and run amuck, and settle for a few of
them, the pigs! One gorgeous, glorious fight, and end the whole
damn business! It's a skin game, that's what life is, and I'm
sick of it!"
He stopped, appalled, crushed by his great desolation, and Uri
Bram seized the moment. He was not given to speech, this man, and
that which followed was the longest in his life, save one long
afterward in another place.
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