| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin: The Amblyrhynchus, a remarkable genus of lizards, is confined
to this archipelago; there are two species, resembling
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each other in general form, one being terrestrial and the
other aquatic. This latter species (A. cristatus) was first
characterized by Mr. Bell, who well foresaw, from its short,
broad head, and strong claws of equal length, that its habits
of life would turn out very peculiar, and different from those
of its nearest ally, the Iguana. It is extremely common on all
the islands throughout the group, and lives exclusively on the
rocky sea-beaches, being never found, at least I never saw
The Voyage of the Beagle |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: her. You know that was a kind of scurvy trick to play on a
sister."
Scarlett rose from his shoulder, furious as a rattler ready to
strike.
"Scurvy trick, hey? I'll thank you to keep a civil tongue in your
head, Will Benteen! Could I help it if he preferred me to her?"
"You're a smart girl, Scarlett, and I figger, yes, you could have
helped him preferrin' you. Girls always can. But I guess you kind
of coaxed him. You're a mighty takin' person when you want to be,
but all the same, he was Suellen's beau. Why, she'd had a letter
from him a week before you went to Atlanta and he was sweet as
Gone With the Wind |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The People That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: I must lie bound and helpless while some horrid beast of prey
crept upon me to devour me in that utter darkness of the Bandlu
pits of Caspak. I reeked with cold sweat, and my flesh
crawled--I could feel it crawl. If ever I came nearer to
abject cowardice, I do not recall the instance; and yet it was
not that I was afraid to die, for I had long since given myself
up as lost--a few days of Caspak must impress anyone with the
utter nothingness of life. The waters, the land, the air
teem with it, and always it is being devoured by some other
form of life. Life is the cheapest thing in Caspak, as it
is the cheapest thing on earth and, doubtless, the cheapest
The People That Time Forgot |
