| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: he had ever before. He desired "I would give him as exact an
account of the government of England as I possibly could;
because, as fond as princes commonly are of their own customs
(for so he conjectured of other monarchs, by my former
discourses), he should be glad to hear of any thing that might
deserve imitation."
Imagine with thyself, courteous reader, how often I then wished
for the tongue of Demosthenes or Cicero, that might have enabled
me to celebrate the praise of my own dear native country in a
style equal to its merits and felicity.
I began my discourse by informing his majesty, that our dominions
Gulliver's Travels |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: in upon the third finger of his left hand, and now he slipped
it surreptitiously into his breeches pocket lest Butzow should
see it and by it be convinced that Barney was indeed Leo-
pold.
"Never mind who you are," cried Butzow, thinking to
humor the king's strange obsession. "You look enough like
Leopold to be his twin, and you must help us save Lutha
from Peter of Blentz."
The American showed in his expression the surprise he
felt at these words from an officer of the prince regent.
"You wonder at my change of heart?" asked Butzow.
The Mad King |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling:
An' when we return, an' from war we would cease,
They grudge us adornin' the billets of peace,
Which are kept for, etc.
We build 'em nice barracks -- they swear they are bad,
That our Colonels are Methodist, married or mad,
Insultin', etc.
They haven't no manners nor gratitude too,
For the more that we help 'em, the less will they do,
Verses 1889-1896 |
