| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: memorable occasion that gave me the opportunity of restoring life
and happiness to the strange world that I had already learned to
love so well.
He showed us the heating system that stores the sun's rays in
great reservoirs beneath the city, and how little is necessary to
maintain the perpetual summer heat of the glorious garden spot
within this arctic paradise.
Broad avenues of sod sewn with the seed of the ocher vegetation
of the dead sea bottoms carried the noiseless traffic of light
The Warlord of Mars |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: passions, all hopes and all fears, the curse of life and the
consolation of death. And she knew nothing of it all. She lived
like the tall palms amongst whom she was passing now, seeking the
light, desiring the sunshine, fearing the storm, unconscious of
either. The slave had no hope, and knew of no change. She knew
of no other sky, no other water, no other forest, no other world,
no other life. She had no wish, no hope, no love, no fear except
of a blow, and no vivid feeling but that of occasional hunger,
which was seldom, for Bulangi was rich and rice was plentiful in
the solitary house in his clearing. The absence of pain and
hunger was her happiness, and when she felt unhappy she was
Almayer's Folly |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson: "is like that of the fabulous inhabitants of the new-created earth,
who, when the first night came upon them, supposed that day would
never return. When the clouds of sorrow gather over us, we see
nothing beyond them, nor can imagine how they will be dispelled;
yet a new day succeeded to the night, and sorrow is never long
without a dawn of ease. But they who restrain themselves from
receiving comfort do as the savages would have done had they put
out their eyes when it was dark. Our minds, like our bodies, are
in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something
acquired. To lose much at once is inconvenient to either, but
while the vital power remains uninjured, nature will find the means
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