| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac: have a bit of fun I told them a lot of stuff about Egypt and Greece
and Spain. As I happened to be wearing spurs I have myself out for a
colonel of cavalry: pure nonsense!"
"Tell me," said Moreau, "what did this traveller you take to be
Monsieur le comte look like?"
"Face like a brick," said Georges, "hair snow-white, and black
eyebrows."
"That is he!"
"Then I'm lost!" exclaimed Georges.
"Why?"
"Oh, I chaffed him about his decorations."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Walking by Henry David Thoreau: made to sit upon, and not to stand or walk upon--I think that
they deserve some credit for not having all committed suicide
long ago.
I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without
acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a
walk at the eleventh hour, or four o'clock in the afternoon, too
late to redeem the day, when the shades of night were already
beginning to be mingled with the daylight, have felt as if I had
committed some sin to be atoned for,--I confess that I am
astonished at the power of endurance, to say nothing of the moral
insensibility, of my neighbors who confine themselves to shops
Walking |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: to the heart of thy palace. Listen to me as well as to them,
and then judge if my acts be not more in accord with true
Barsoomian chivalry and honor than those of these revengeful
devotees of the spurious creeds from whose cruel bonds I have
freed your planet."
"Silence!" roared the jeddak, leaping to his feet and laying his hand
upon the hilt of his sword. "Silence, blasphemer! Kulan Tith need not
permit the air of his audience chamber to be defiled by the heresies
that issue from your polluted throat to judge you.
The Warlord of Mars |
