| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: for an instant, and in that instant I gave two mighty leaps
that carried me out of the chamber into the corridor beyond,
down which I raced with all the speed I could command.
Where I was, or whither I was going, I knew not.
My only thought was to place as much distance as possible
between me and that frightful chamber of torture.
Presently I reduced my speed to a brisk walk, and later
realizing the danger of running into some new predicament,
were I not careful, I moved still more slowly and cautiously.
After a time I came to a passage that seemed in some
mysterious way familiar to me, and presently, chancing to
At the Earth's Core |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle: So all turned their steps to the forest depths, where the Tinker
was to live henceforth. For many a day he sang ballads
to the band, until the famous Allan a Dale joined them,
before whose sweet voice all others seemed as harsh as a raven's;
but of him we will learn hereafter.
The Shooting Match at Nottingham Town
THEN THE SHERIFF was very wroth because of this failure to take
jolly Robin, for it came to his ears, as ill news always does,
that the people laughed at him and made a jest of his thinking
to serve a warrant upon such a one as the bold outlaw.
And a man hates nothing so much as being made a jest of; so he said:
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: offended the only authority which is able to promote his success.
Every sort of compensation, even that of celebrity, is refused to
him. Before he published his opinions he imagined that he held
them in common with many others; but no sooner has he declared
them openly than he is loudly censured by his overbearing
opponents, whilst those who think without having the courage to
speak, like him, abandon him in silence. He yields at length,
oppressed by the daily efforts he has been making, and he
subsides into silence, as if he was tormented by remorse for
having spoken the truth.
Fetters and headsmen were the coarse instruments which
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