| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Of The Nature of Things by Lucretius: Either the image is passed on along
From mirror unto mirror, and thereafter,
When twice dashed off, flies back unto ourselves;
Or else the image wheels itself around,
When once unto the mirror it has come,
Since the curved surface teaches it to turn
To usward. Further, thou might'st well believe
That these film-idols step along with us
And set their feet in unison with ours
And imitate our carriage, since from that
Part of a mirror whence thou hast withdrawn
Of The Nature of Things |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: tutor - that in a little while he should stand on his own feet. He
considered that the situation would change - that in short he
should be "finished," grown up, producible in the world of affairs
and ready to prove himself of sterling ability. Sharply as he was
capable at times of analysing, as he called it, his life, there
were happy hours when he remained, as he also called it - and as
the name, really, of their right ideal - "jolly" superficial; the
proof of which was his fundamental assumption that he should
presently go to Oxford, to Pemberton's college, and, aided and
abetted by Pemberton, do the most wonderful things. It depressed
the young man to see how little in such a project he took account
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: loathe since early childhood.
Her soft, white skin; her shapely hands and well-cared-for
nails; her trim figure and perfectly fitting suit all taunted him
with their superiority over him and his kind. He knew that she
looked down upon him as an inferior being. She was of the
class that addressed those in his walk of life as "my man."
Lord, how he hated that appellation!
The intentness of his gaze upon her back had the effect so
often noted by the observant, and suddenly aroused from the
lethargy of her misery the girl swung around to meet the
man's eyes squarely upon her. Instantly she recognized him as
The Mucker |
