| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs:
"Well done, John Carter," he cried. "You turn their own
mighty power against them. Fortunate for Okar is it that you were
here to prevent their escape, for these be the greatest villains
north of the ice-barrier, and this one"--pointing to the leader of
the party--"would have made himself Jeddak of Jeddaks in the place
of the dead Salensus Oll. Then indeed would we have had a more
villainous ruler than the hated tyrant who fell before your sword."
The Okarian nobles now submitted to arrest, since nothing but
death faced them should they resist, and, escorted by the warriors
The Warlord of Mars |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: he excelled at a later period of his life.
"I have twice known a pair of trousers turned out by him make a
match of twenty thousand livres a year!"
Fifteen hundred francs, and as many suits of clothes as he chose
to order! At that moment the poor child of the South felt no more
doubts of any kind. The young man went down to breakfast with the
indefinable air which the consciousness of the possession of
money gives to youth. No sooner are the coins slipped into a
student's pocket than his wealth, in imagination at least, is
piled into a fantastic column, which affords him a moral support.
He begins to hold up his head as he walks; he is conscious that
Father Goriot |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: "And, my gog! How could they be otherwise? Look at that one,
the aftest abaft the bier-bank, read it!"
I went over and read, "Edward Spencelagh, master mariner,
murdered by pirates off the coast of Andres, April, 1854, age 30."
When I came back Mr. Swales went on,
"Who brought him home, I wonder, to hap him here? Murdered off
the coast of Andres! An' you consated his body lay under!
Why, I could name ye a dozen whose bones lie in the Greenland seas above,"
he pointed northwards, "or where the currants may have drifted them.
There be the steans around ye. Ye can, with your young eyes,
read the small print of the lies from here. This Braithwaite Lowery,
Dracula |
