| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: "Do you ever have the nightmare?" asked the Englishman suddenly.
"I? Oh yes, sometimes"; he looked curiously at his companion; "when I've
eaten too much, I get it."
"I always have it since I came up here," said the Englishman. "It is that
a vast world is resting on me--a whole globe: and I am a midge beneath it.
I try to raise it, and I cannot. So I lie still under it--and let it crush
me!"
"It's curious you should have the nightmare so up here," said the Colonial;
"one gets so little to eat."
There was a silence: he was picking the little fine feathers from the
bird, and the Englishman was watching the ants.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare: HODGE.
He skill of the stars! there's good-man Car of Fulhum,
he that carried us to the strong Ale, where goody
Trundell had her maid got with child: O he knows the
stars. He'll tickle you Charles Waine in nine degrees.
That same man will tell you goody Trundell when her
Ale shall miscarry, only by the stars.
SECOND SMITH.
Aye, that's a great virtue; indeed I think Thomas be no
body in comparison to him.
FIRST SMITH.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Master Key by L. Frank Baum: looking around for some high building from the roof of which he
could depart unnoticed.
This was not at all difficult, and selecting one of many stores he
ascended by an elevator to the top floor and from there mounted an
iron stairway leading to the flat roof. As he climbed this stairway
he found himself followed by a pleasant looking young man, who also
seemed desirous of viewing the city from the roof.
Annoyed at the inopportune intrusion, Rob's first thought was to go
back to the street and try another building; but, upon reflecting that
the young man was not likely to remain long and he would soon be
alone, he decided to wait. So he walked to the edge of the roof and
The Master Key |
