| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: sea below, my arrow buried completely in its carcass.
I turned toward the girl. She was looking past me.
It was evident that she had seen the thipdar die.
"Dian," I said, "won't you tell me that you are not sorry
that I have found you?"
"I hate you," was her only reply; but I imagined
that there was less vehemence in it than before--yet
it might have been but my imagination.
"Why do you hate me, Dian?" I asked, but she did not
answer me.
"What are you doing here?" I asked, "and what has happened
At the Earth's Core |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: large, without distinction of class; nay, by preference, to the
ruling class. For how can people, when once they understand
their system, fail to see in it the best possible plan of the
best possible state of society?
Hence, they reject all political, and especially all
revolutionary,
action; they wish to attain their ends by peaceful means, and
endeavour,
by small experiments, necessarily doomed to failure, and by the
force of
example, to pave the way for the new social Gospel.
The Communist Manifesto |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: through the breach. Like a pruner cutting willow-branches and trying
to strike off as much as possible so as to make the more money, he
marched along mowing down the Carthaginians around him. Those who
tried to seize him in flank he knocked down with blows of the pommel;
when they attacked him in front he ran them through; if they fled he
clove them. Two men leaped together upon his back; he bounded
backwards against a gate and crushed them. His sword fell and rose. It
shivered on the angle of a wall. Then he took his heavy axe, and front
and rear he ripped up the Carthaginians like a flock of sheep. They
scattered more and more, and he was quite alone when he reached the
second enclosure at the foot of the Acropolis. The materials which had
Salammbo |
