| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: asking you about how you escaped the beast as soon
as I had completed the translation of this most
interesting passage."
"Perry, you ARE mad," I exclaimed. "Why, the Lord only knows
how long I have been away. I have been to other lands,
discovered a new race of humans within Pellucidar,
seen the Mahars at their worship in their hidden temple,
and barely escaped with my life from them and from a
great labyrinthodon that I met afterward, following my
long and tedious wanderings across an unknown world.
I must have been away for months, Perry, and now you barely
At the Earth's Core |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Middlemarch by George Eliot: "You would have done your duty in that state of life to which it
has not pleased God to call you," said Mary, laughing.
"Well, I couldn't do my duty as a clergyman, any more than you
could do yours as a governess. You ought to have a little
fellow-feeling there, Mary."
"I never said you ought to be a clergyman. There are other sorts
of work. It seems to me very miserable not to resolve on some
course and act accordingly."
"So I could, if--" Fred broke off, and stood up, leaning against
the mantel-piece.
"If you were sure you should not have a fortune?"
Middlemarch |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: into the next room. An old courtier, a co-worker
and friend of his father's, was standing there in
the middle of the room in conversation with the
young Queen, who was on her way to join her
husband. The young Tsar approached them, and
addressing his conversation principally to the old
courtier, told him what he had seen in his dream
and what doubts the dream had left in his mind.
"That is a noble idea. It proves the rare
nobility of your spirit," said the old man. "But
forgive me for speaking frankly--you are too
The Forged Coupon |
