| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Louis Lambert by Honore de Balzac: philosopher's life he repeatedly gave proof of the power of sight
developed in his Inner Being. As he grew older, and as his
intelligence was developed, Lambert was naturally led to seek in the
laws of nature for the causes of the miracle which, in his childhood,
had captivated his attention. What name can be given to the chance
which brought within his ken so many facts and books bearing on such
phenomena, and made him the principal subject and actor in such
marvelous manifestations of mind?
If Lambert had no other title to fame than the fact of his having
formulated, in his sixteenth year, such a psychological dictum as
this:--"The events which bear witness to the action of the human race,
Louis Lambert |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: to say anything, but joked and spoke about the performance, which
she thought ought to touch Nekhludoff. Nekhludoff saw that she
had nothing to tell, but only wished to show herself to him in
all the splendour of her evening toilet, with her shoulders and
little mole; and this was pleasant and yet repulsive to him.
The charm that had veiled all this sort of thing from Nekhludoff
was not removed, but it was as if he could see what lay beneath.
Looking at Mariette, he admired her, and yet he knew that she was
a liar, living with a husband who was making his career by means
of the tears and lives of hundreds and hundreds of people, and
that she was quite indifferent about it, and that all she had
Resurrection |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Land that Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: have been extinct for several million years. It gave one a
feeling of newness that was almost embarrassing, although it
didn't seem to embarrass our appetites. Olson ate until I
thought he would burst.
The girl ate with us that night at the little officers' mess just
back of the torpedo compartment. The narrow table was unfolded;
the four stools were set out; and for the first time in days we
sat down to eat, and for the first time in weeks we had something
to eat other than the monotony of the short rations of an
impoverished U-boat. Nobs sat between the girl and me and was
fed with morsels of the Plesiosaurus steak, at the risk of
The Land that Time Forgot |
