| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Just Folks by Edgar A. Guest: In folly's reckless way;
The cost of foodstuffs, be it told,
Takes all my weekly pay.
'Tis putting food on empty plates
That eats my wages up;
And now another mouth awaits,
For Buddy's got a pup.
And yet I gladly stand the strain,
And count the task worth while,
Nor will I dismally complain
While Buddy wears a smile.
Just Folks |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: further prosecute his labors until enduring success had
crowned his efforts with an achievement which he might
exhibit with pride to the scientific world.
His recent disastrous success had convinced him that
neither Ithaca nor any other abode of civilization was
a safe place to continue his experiments, but it was
not until their cruising had brought them among the
multitudinous islands of the East Indies that the plan
occurred to him that he finally adopted--a plan the
outcome of which could he then have foreseen would have
sent him scurrying to the safety of his own country
The Monster Men |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: This was to her husband whose hand had, as we could see,
tightened upon her. "In the morning we go out upon our task,
and God alone knows what may be in store for any of us.
You are going to be so good to me to take me with you.
I know that all that brave earnest men can do for a poor
weak woman, whose soul perhaps is lost, no, no, not yet,
but is at any rate at stake, you will do. But you must remember
that I am not as you are. There is a poison in my blood,
in my soul, which may destroy me, which must destroy me,
unless some relief comes to us. Oh, my friends, you know as well
as I do, that my soul is at stake. And though I know there
Dracula |
