| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: of Torn wheeled his horse and rode back with the
Queen's messenger.
As he faced Her Majesty the Outlaw of Torn bent
low over his pommel.
"You be a strange knight that thinks so lightly on
saving a queen's life that you ride on without turning
your head, as though you had but driven a pack of curs
from annoying a stray cat," said the Queen.
"I drew in the service of a woman, Your Majesty,
not in the service of a queen."
"What now! Wouldst even belittle the act which we
The Outlaw of Torn |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rezanov by Gertrude Atherton: Will you ask the others to go to the cabin, while I
give orders that dinner shall be served on your
island?"
In the cabin, Concha forgot him for a few mo-
ments. Her mother, her eyes dwelling fondly upon
several shawls she hoped were intended for herself
alone, was hushing the baby to sleep in the deep
chair of his excellency. Ana Paula was playing
with an Alaskan doll she had appropriated without
ceremony. Rezanov came in when his guests were
assembled, and he had a gift for each; curious ob-
Rezanov |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of
their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has
endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers,
the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare,
is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress
in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered
only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked
by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler
of a free People.
United States Declaration of Independence |
