| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Custer, with Lieutenant Butzow and Custer's partner, stood
contemplating the smoldering wreckage.
"And to think," said Barney, "that yesterday this muss
was the largest corn mill west of anywhere. I guess we
can both take vacations now, Bert."
"Who would have thought that a single bolt of lightning
could have resulted in such havoc?" mused Victoria.
"Who would?" agreed Lieutenant Butzow, and then, with
a sudden narrowing of his eyes and a quick glance at Bar-
ney, "if it WAS lightning."
The American looked at the Luthanian. "You think--" he
The Mad King |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: "Empty clam-shells and dry seaweed!" snorted Sea Catch.
"There never has been such a thing in the world as a white seal."
"I can't help that," said Matkah; "there's going to be now."
And she sang the low, crooning seal song that all the mother seals
sing to their babies:
You mustn't swim till you're six weeks old,
Or your head will be sunk by your heels;
And summer gales and Killer Whales
Are bad for baby seals.
Are bad for baby seals, dear rat,
As bad as bad can be;
The Jungle Book |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Facino Cane by Honore de Balzac: despotism so much a part of him, that it rose above his poverty.
There are violent passions which drive a man to good or evil, making
of him a hero or a convict; of these there was not one that had failed
to leave its traces on the grandly-hewn, lividly Italian face. You
trembled lest a flash of thought should suddenly light up the deep
sightless hollows under the grizzled brows, as you might fear to see
brigands with torches and poniards in the mouth of a cavern. You felt
that there was a lion in that cage of flesh, a lion spent with useless
raging against iron bars. The fires of despair had burned themselves
out into ashes, the lava had cooled; but the tracks of the flames, the
wreckage, and a little smoke remained to bear witness to the violence
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