| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs: there are two Wieroo cities at the eastern end of the island.
To have passed near either of them might have been to have brought
about our heads hundreds of the creatures from whom we could not
possibly have escaped. Again, my friends must be near this spot--
it cannot be over two marches to the fort of which I have told you.
It is my duty to return to them. If they still live we shall find
a way to return you to your people."
"And you?" asked the girl.
"I escaped from Oo-oh," replied Bradley. "I have accomplished
the impossible once, and so I shall accomplish it again--I shall
escape from Caspak."
Out of Time's Abyss |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac: seek an unseen friend? you ask. Your person may be unknown to me,
but your mind, your heart I KNOW; they please me, and I feel an
infinitude of thoughts within my soul which need a man of genius
for their confidant. I do not wish the poem of my heart to be
wasted; I would have it known to you as it is to God. What a
precious thing is a true comrade, one to whom we can tell all! You
will surely not reject the unpublished leaflets of a young girl's
thoughts when they fly to you like the pretty insects fluttering
to the sun? I am sure you have never before met with this good
fortune of the soul,--the honest confidences of an honest girl.
Listen to her prattle; accept the music that she sings to you in
Modeste Mignon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: our European Nature into that tropic one, they had felt like
Plato's men, bred in the twilight cavern, and then suddenly turned
round to the broad blaze of day; they had seen things awful and
unspeakable: why talk of them, except to say with the Turks, "God
is great!"
So it was with these men. Among the higher-hearted of them, the
grandeur and the glory around had attuned their spirits to itself,
and kept up in them a lofty, heroical, reverent frame of mind; but
they knew as little about the trees and animals in an "artistic" or
"critical" point of view, as in a scientific one. This tree the
Indians called one unpronounceable name, and it made good bows;
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