| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: you'll step into the officers' wards you'll see for yourself," he
added, turning to Rostov.
"Ah, you'd better not go, sir," said the doctor, "or you may have to
stay here yourself."
But Rostov bowed himself away from the doctor and asked the
assistant to show him the way.
"Only don't blame me!" the doctor shouted up after him.
Rostov and the assistant went into the dark corridor. The smell
was so strong there that Rostov held his nose and had to pause and
collect his strength before he could go on. A door opened to the
right, and an emaciated sallow man on crutches, barefoot and in
War and Peace |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs: killing of some large fierce denizen of the jungle, the death or
accession of a king, and were conducted with set ceremonialism.
Today it was the killing of a giant ape, a member of another
tribe, and as the people of Kerchak entered the arena
two mighty bulls were seen bearing the body of the
vanquished between them.
They laid their burden before the earthen drum and then
squatted there beside it as guards, while the other members of
the community curled themselves in grassy nooks to sleep
until the rising moon should give the signal for the
commencement of their savage orgy.
Tarzan of the Apes |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: no man go unpunished for an insult such as your brother put upon me.
She winced at his words, at the bow with which he had professed himself
once more her servant.
"It is no clemency that you offer him," she said. "You leave him a
choice between death and dishonour."
"He has," Wilding reminded her, "the chance of combat."
She flung back her head impatiently. "I think you mock me," said she.
He looked at her keenly. "Will you tell me plainly, madam," he begged,
"what you would have me do?"
She flushed under his gaze, and the flush told him what he sought to
learn. There was, of course, another way, and she had thought of it;
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