| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: "Doubt it not," said the friar, "though flooded Trent were between us,
and fifty devils guarded the bridge."
He kissed Matilda's forehead, and walked away without a song.
CHAPTER VIII
Let gallows gape for dog: let man go free. Henry V.
A page had been brought up in Gamwell-Hall, who, while he was little,
had been called Little John, and continued to be so called after
he had grown to be a foot taller than any other man in the house.
He was full seven feet high. His latitude was worthy of his longitude,
and his strength was worthy of both; and though an honest man by profession,
he had practiced archery on the king's deer for the benefit of his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: countless desert sheiks in the hope that at last I might find
one who had heard of Innes and his wonderful iron mole.
Constantly my eyes scanned the blinding waste of sand
for the ricky cairn beneath which I was to find the wires
leading to Pellucidar--but always was I unsuccessful.
And always do these awful questions harass me when I
think of David Innes and his strange adventures.
Did the Arabs murder him, after all, just on the eve
of his departure? Or, did he again turn the nose of his
iron monster toward the inner world? Did he reach it,
or lies he somewhere buried in the heart of the great crust?
At the Earth's Core |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: escape 'tis no more than might be expected from a proud and
courageous people Ever have I counselled greater fairness in our
treatment of our slaves, many of whom, in their own lands, are
people of great distinction and power; but always has O-Tar, the
jeddak, flouted with arrogance my every suggestion. Though it has
been through none of my seeking that the question has arisen now
I am glad that it has, for the time was bound to come when the
jeds of Manator would demand from O-Tar the respect and
consideration that is their due from the man who holds his high
office at their pleasure. Know, then, O-Tar, that you must free
A-Kor, the dwar, forthwith or bring him to fair trial before the
The Chessmen of Mars |
