| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin: in the act of swimming.
The inhabitants of the country readily distinguish, even
at a distance, the cock bird from the hen. The former is
larger and darker-coloured, [12] and has a bigger head. The
ostrich, I believe the cock, emits a singular, deep-toned,
hissing note: when first I heard it, standing in the midst of
some sand-hillocks, I thought it was made by some wild
beast, for it is a sound that one cannot tell whence it comes,
or from how far distant. When we were at Bahia Blanca
in the months of September and October, the eggs, in
extraordinary numbers, were found all over the country. They
The Voyage of the Beagle |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: He answered her by the warm light in his eyes.
All things tended to key them to an exquisite pitch--the movement of their
bodies, at one with the moving bodies of the animals beneath them; the gently
stimulated blood caressing the flesh through and through with the soft vigors
of health; the warm air fanning their faces, flowing over the skin with balmy
and tonic touch, permeating them and bathing them, subtly, with faint,
sensuous delight; and the beauty of the world, more subtly still, flowing upon
them and bathing them in the delight that is of the spirit and is personal and
holy, that is inexpressible yet communicable by the flash of an eye and the
dissolving of the veils of the soul.
So looked they at each other, the horses bounding beneath them, the spring of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Nada the Lily by H. Rider Haggard: dreamed a dream. When the judgment of those witches was done with, I
went and laid me down to sleep while it was yet light, for I can
scarcely sleep at all when darkness has swallowed up the world. My
sleep has gone from me--that sister of thine, Baleka, took my sleep
with her to the place of death. I laid me down and I slept, but a
dream arose and sat by me with a hooded face, and showed me a picture.
It seemed to me that the wall of my hut fell down, and I saw an open
place, and in the centre of the place I lay dead, covered with many
wounds, while round my corpse my brothers Dingaan and Umhlangana
stalked in pride like lions. On the shoulders of Umhlangana was my
royal kaross, and there was blood on the kaross; and in the hand of
Nada the Lily |
