| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: progenitor of the white ape and in the fourth the primaeval
black man of Barsoom.
"When the bud burst the plant man remained dangling at
the end of his stem, but the three other sections fell to the
ground, where the efforts of their imprisoned occupants to
escape sent them hopping about in all directions.
"Thus as time went on, all Barsoom was covered with
these imprisoned creatures. For countless ages they lived their
long lives within their hard shells, hopping and skipping about
the broad planet; falling into rivers, lakes, and seas, to be still
further spread about the surface of the new world.
The Gods of Mars |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Silas Marner by George Eliot: frame--as if "beauty born of murmuring sound" had passed into
the face of the listener.
Silas's face showed that sort of transfiguration, as he sat in his
arm-chair and looked at Eppie. She had drawn her own chair towards
his knees, and leaned forward, holding both his hands, while she
looked up at him. On the table near them, lit by a candle, lay the
recovered gold--the old long-loved gold, ranged in orderly heaps,
as Silas used to range it in the days when it was his only joy. He
had been telling her how he used to count it every night, and how
his soul was utterly desolate till she was sent to him.
"At first, I'd a sort o' feeling come across me now and then," he
Silas Marner |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Euthydemus by Plato: Are you not other than a stone?
I am.
And being other than a stone, you are not a stone; and being other than
gold, you are not gold?
Very true.
And so Chaeredemus, he said, being other than a father, is not a father?
I suppose that he is not a father, I replied.
For if, said Euthydemus, taking up the argument, Chaeredemus is a father,
then Sophroniscus, being other than a father, is not a father; and you,
Socrates, are without a father.
Ctesippus, here taking up the argument, said: And is not your father in
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