| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: and in that moment I've told you about, I forgot my God
and remembered only my heart's bitterness, God forgive me,
and I struck to kill. In one second I was miserably
sorry--oh, filled with remorse; but I thought of my
poor family, and I MUST hide what I'd done for their sakes;
and I did hide that corpse in the bushes; and presently I
carried it to the tobacker field; and in the deep night I
went with my shovel and buried it where--"
Up jumps Tom and shouts:
"NOW, I've got it!" and waves his hand, oh, ever so fine
and starchy, towards the old man, and says:
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the arbiters of our own fate than is any god.
"Issus, you see, has not struck me dead, nor is she rescuing
her faithful Xodar from the clutches of the unbeliever who
defamed her fair beauty. No, Xodar, your Issus is a mortal
old woman. Once out of her clutches and she cannot harm you.
"With your knowledge of this strange land, and my knowledge
of the outer world, two such fighting-men as you and I
should be able to win our way to freedom. Even though we
died in the attempt, would not our memories be fairer than
as though we remained in servile fear to be butchered by a
cruel and unjust tyrant--call her goddess or mortal, as you will."
The Gods of Mars |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: were both solid, and we burst them asunder; and we made from water
every living thing-will they then not believe?
And we placed on the earth firm mountains lest it should move with
them, and He made therein open roads for paths, haply they may be
guided! and we made the heaven a guarded roof; yet from our signs they
turn aside!
He it is who created the night and the day, and the sun and the
moon, each floating in a sky.
We never made for any mortal before thee immortality; what, if
thou shouldst die, will they live on for aye?
Every soul shall taste of death! we will test them with evil and
The Koran |
