| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: strip on the top of his head to just beyond the crown. His
remaining hair was drawn into an unbraided queue, tied
tightly at the back, and the queue then brought forward to
the top of the forehead. His helmet lay in the grass at his feet.
At the nearer approach of the party to the cliff top the
watcher turned and melted into the forest at his back. He was
Oda Yorimoto, descendant of a powerful daimio of the Ashikaga
Dynasty of shoguns who had fled Japan with his faithful
samurai nearly three hundred and fifty years before upon the
overthrow of the Ashikaga Dynasty.
Upon this unfrequented and distant Japanese isle the exiles
The Mucker |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: different.
On this view of migration, with subsequent modification, we can see why
oceanic islands should be inhabited by few species, but of these, that many
should be peculiar. We can clearly see why those animals which cannot
cross wide spaces of ocean, as frogs and terrestrial mammals, should not
inhabit oceanic islands; and why, on the other hand, new and peculiar
species of bats, which can traverse the ocean, should so often be found on
islands far distant from any continent. Such facts as the presence of
peculiar species of bats, and the absence of all other mammals, on oceanic
islands, are utterly inexplicable on the theory of independent acts of
creation.
On the Origin of Species |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Egmont by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Vansen. Will you interfere to prevent it? Will you stir up an insurrection if
he is arrested?
Jetter. Ah!
Vansen. Will you risk your ribs for his sake?
Soest. Eh!
Vansen (mimicking them). Eh! Oh! Ah! Run through the alphabet in your
wonderment. So it is, and so it will remain. Heaven help him!
Jetter. Confound your impudence. Can such a noble, upright man have
anything to fear?
Vansen. In this world the rogue has everywhere the advantage. At the bar,
he makes a fool of the judge; on the bench, he takes pleasure in convicting
Egmont |
