| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Domestic Peace by Honore de Balzac: strongly with the penury of the Republic, that the wealth of the globe
seemed to be rolling through the drawing-rooms of Paris. Intoxication
seemed to have turned the brains of this Empire of a day. All the
military, not excepting their chief, reveled like parvenus in the
treasure conquered for them by a million men with worsted epaulettes,
whose demands were satisfied by a few yards of red ribbon.
At this time most women affected that lightness of conduct and
facility of morals which distinguished the reign of Louis XV. Whether
it were in imitation of the tone of the fallen monarchy, or because
certain members of the Imperial family had set the example--as certain
malcontents of the Faubourg Saint-Germain chose to say--it is certain
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Common Sense by Thomas Paine: If the colony continues increasing, it will become necessary
to augment the number of the representatives, and that the interest
of every part of the colony may be attended to, it will be found
best to divide the whole into convenient parts, each part sending
its proper number; and that the ELECTED might never form to themselves
an interest separate from the ELECTORS, prudence will point out
the propriety of having elections often; because as the ELECTED
might by that means return and mix again with the general body
of the ELECTORS in a few months, their fidelity to the public
will be secured by the prudent reflection of not making a rod
for themselves. And as this frequent interchange will establish
Common Sense |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: feeling the surface of the walls--Dian had blocked up
the hole she had made lest it arouse suspicion and
lead to an early discovery of Juag's escape.
Plunging my weight against the crumbling mass, I
sent it crashing into the adjoining cavern. With it came
I, David, Emperor of Pellucidar. I doubt if any other
potentate in a world's history ever made a more un-
dignified entrance. I landed head first on all fours, but
I came quickly and was on my feet before the man
in the dark guessed what had happened.
He saw me, though, when I arose and, sensing that
Pellucidar |
