| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost: and that I was weighed down by a sense of my ingratitude; that
the first thing I implored of him was to tell me whether I might
still consider him my friend, after having so justly incurred the
loss of his esteem and affection. He replied, in the kindest
possible manner, that it was not in the nature of things to
destroy his regard for me; that my misfortunes even, or, if he
might so call them, my faults and transgressions, had but
increased the interest he felt for me; but that he must confess
his affection was not unalloyed by a sentiment of the liveliest
sorrow, such as a person may be supposed to feel at seeing a
beloved object on the brink of ruin, and beyond the reach of his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: rigid as a marble statue before his master. White and
livid was his tense drawn face, but he spoke no word.
He might have struck the King, but then there would
have been left to him no alternative save death by his
own hand; for a king may not fight with a lesser mor-
tal, and he who strikes a king may not live--the king's
honor must be satisfied.
Had a French king struck him De Vac would have
struck back, and gloried in the fate which permitted
him to die for the honor of France; but an English King
--pooh! a dog; and who would die for a dog? No, De
The Outlaw of Torn |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: from the ground to the upper stories of his house.
We ascended for some forty feet when the interior of
the space between the walls commenced to grow lighter
and presently we came opposite an opening in the inner
wall which gave us an unobstructed view of the entire
interior of the temple.
The lower floor was an enormous tank of clear water in
which numerous hideous Mahars swam lazily up and down.
Artificial islands of granite rock dotted this artificial sea,
and upon several of them I saw men and women like myself.
"What are the human beings doing here?" I asked.
At the Earth's Core |
