| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: piece of ice, which their weight detached from the floe.
It began to drift. The river widened, the way was open.
Michael and Nadia heard the shots, the cries of distress, the
yells of the Tartars. Then, little by little, the sounds of
agony and of ferocious joy grew faint in the distance.
"Our poor companions!" murmured Nadia.
For half an hour the current hurried along the block of
ice which bore Michael and Nadia. They feared every
moment that it would give way beneath them. Swept
along in the middle of the current, it was unnecessary to
give it an oblique direction until they drew near the quays
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: stand alone against the kings. Their capital, being invested in
trade, was necessarily subject to such sudden dangers from war,
political change, bad seasons, and so forth, that its holders,
however individually brave, were timid as a class. They could never
hold out on strike against the governments, and had to submit to the
powers that were, whatever they were, under penalty of ruin.
But on the Continent, and especially in France and Germany, unable
to strengthen itself by intermarriage with the noblesse, they
retained that timidity which is the fruit of the insecurity of
trade; and had to submit to a more and more centralised despotism,
and grow up as they could, in the face of exasperating hindrances to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake: And not feel my sorrow's share?
Can a father see his child
Weep, nor be with sorrow filled?
Can a mother sit and hear
An infant groan, an infant fear?
No, no! never can it be!
Never, never can it be!
And can He who smiles on all
Hear the wren with sorrows small,
Hear the small bird's grief and care,
Hear the woes that infants bear -
Songs of Innocence and Experience |
