| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: to any woman; but you must not speak, my friend,
of bestowing upon me that which I may not reciprocate."
The young man got slowly to his feet. His eyes were
wide in astonishment. It never had occurred to the Prince
of Helium that Thuvia of Ptarth might love another.
"But at Kadabra!" he exclaimed. "And later here at
your father's court, what did you do, Thuvia of Ptarth,
that might have warned me that you could not return my love?"
"And what did I do, Carthoris of Helium," she returned,
"that might lead you to believe that I DID return it?"
He paused in thought, and then shook his head.
Thuvia, Maid of Mars |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: lights of the candelabrum, which was lower than his sandals, and the
fine dust raised by his footsteps surrounded him like a cloud as high
as the waist. He stopped between the legs of the brass colossus. He
took up two handfuls of the dust, the mere sight of which made every
Carthaginian shudder with horror, and said:
"By the hundred torches of your Intelligences! by the eight fires of
the Kabiri! by the stars, the meteors, and the volcanoes! by
everything that burns! by the thirst of the desert and the saltness of
the ocean! by the cave of Hadrumetum and the empire of Souls! by
extermination! by the ashes of your sons and the ashes of the brothers
of your ancestors with which I now mingle my own!--you, the Hundred of
Salammbo |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin: HOW THE AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM OF THE BLACK BROTHERS WAS
INTERFERED WITH BY SOUTHWEST WIND, ESQUIRE
In a secluded and mountainous part of Stiria there was in old
time a valley of the most surprising and luxuriant fertility. It
was surrounded on all sides by steep and rocky mountains rising into
peaks which were always covered with snow and from which a number of
torrents descended in constant cataracts. One of these fell
westward over the face of a crag so high that when the sun had set
to everything else, and all below was darkness, his beams still
shone full upon this waterfall, so that it looked like a shower of
gold. It was therefore called by the people of the neighborhood the
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