| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: your brain. There is no place in the world for them,
nor for you.
"I am sorry that it is so. I am sorry that I should
have to be the one to tell you; but it is better that
you know it now from a friend than that you meet the
bitter truth when you least expected it, and possibly
from the lips of one like Miss Maxon for whom you might
have formed a hopeless affection."
As von Horn spoke the expression on the young man's
face became more and more hopeless, and when he had
ceased he dropped his head into his open palms, sitting
The Monster Men |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne: between this and then many things may take place which will cure my
uncle of his desire to travel underground.
It was night when we arrived at the house in Königstrasse. I expected
to find all quiet there, my uncle in bed as was his custom, and
Martha giving her last touches with the feather brush.
But I had not taken into account the Professor's impatience. I found
him shouting- and working himself up amidst a crowd of porters and
messengers who were all depositing various loads in the passage. Our
old servant was at her wits' end.
"Come, Axel, come, you miserable wretch," my uncle cried from as far
off as he could see me. "Your boxes are not packed, and my papers are
Journey to the Center of the Earth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: a caressing accent. And next after this, the tongue is the great
divider.
I am almost ashamed to pursue this worldly criticism of a religious
rule; but there is yet another point in which the Trappist order
appeals to me as a model of wisdom. By two in the morning the
clapper goes upon the bell, and so on, hour by hour, and sometimes
quarter by quarter, till eight, the hour of rest; so
infinitesimally is the day divided among different occupations.
The man who keeps rabbits, for example, hurries from his hutches to
the chapel, the chapter-room, or the refectory, all day long:
every hour he has an office to sing, a duty to perform; from two,
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