| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Of The Nature of Things by Lucretius: Crumble and crack, therewith outworn by eld.
Then, too, we see, that, just as body takes
Monstrous diseases and the dreadful pain,
So mind its bitter cares, the grief, the fear;
Wherefore it tallies that the mind no less
Partaker is of death; for pain and disease
Are both artificers of death,- as well
We've learned by the passing of many a man ere now.
Nay, too, in diseases of body, often the mind
Wanders afield; for 'tis beside itself,
And crazed it speaks, or many a time it sinks,
Of The Nature of Things |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: eyes were as soft and dark as a woman's. His face was solid
black, except in the middle of his forehead, where there was a
round spot of white.
"Say mister, mind tellin' me his name?" asked a ragged urchin,
with born love of a horse in his eyes.
"Bullet," replied the rider.
"Thet there's fer the white mark, ain't it?" whispered the
youngster to another. "Say, ain't he a whopper? Biggest hoss I
ever seen."
Bullet carried a huge black silver-ornamented saddle of Mexican
make, a lariat and canteen, and a small pack rolled into a
The Lone Star Ranger |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: to his former self; and then Vas Kor had seen him but twice
in all his life. Little wonder that he did not know him.
During the evening Vas Kor announced that on
the morrow they should depart north toward Dusar,
picking up recruits at various stations along the way.
In a great field behind the house a flier lay--a fair-
sized cruiser-transport that would accommodate many men,
yet swift and well armed also. Here Carthoris slept,
and Kar Komak, too, with the other recruits, under guard
of the regular Dusarian warriors that manned the craft.
Toward midnight Vas Kor returned to the vessel from his
Thuvia, Maid of Mars |
