| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Solan had been chosen for this important duty.
Never in all my life have I seen such wondrous swordsmanship
and such uncanny agility as that ancient bag of bones displayed.
He was in forty places at the same time, and before I had half a chance
to awaken to my danger he was like to have made a monkey of me,
and a dead monkey at that.
It is strange how new and unexpected conditions bring out
unguessed ability to meet them.
The Warlord of Mars |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Art of War by Sun Tzu: "In war, there are various indirect methods of attack, and
numbers do not count for everything. [The commentator here
quotes Sun Tzu, V. SS. 5, 6 and 10.] Now the rebels have pitched
their camp in the midst of thick grass which will easily burn
when the wind blows. If we set fire to it at night, they will be
thrown into a panic, and we can make a sortie and attack them on
all sides at once, thus emulating the achievement of T`ien Tan.'
[See p. 90.] That same evening, a strong breeze sprang up; so
Huang-fu Sung instructed his soldiers to bind reeds together into
torches and mount guard on the city walls, after which he sent
out a band of daring men, who stealthily made their way through
The Art of War |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: distress of her parents.
Lucy's spirit, however, was high, and, although unaided and
alone, she could have borne much: she could have endured the
repinings of her father; his murmurs against what he called the
tyrannical usage of the ruling party; his ceaseless charges of
ingratitude against Ravenswood; his endless lectures on the
various means by which contracts may be voided an annulled; his
quotations from the civil, municipal, and the canon law; and his
prelections upon the patria potestas.
She might have borne also in patience, or repelled with scorn,
the bitter taunts and occasional violence of her brother,
The Bride of Lammermoor |
