| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: numbers in its new home, we should have to modify it in a different way to
what we should have done in its native country; for we should have to give
it some advantage over a different set of competitors or enemies.
It is good thus to try in our imagination to give any form some advantage
over another. Probably in no single instance should we know what to do, so
as to succeed. It will convince us of our ignorance on the mutual
relations of all organic beings; a conviction as necessary, as it seems to
be difficult to acquire. All that we can do, is to keep steadily in mind
that each organic being is striving to increase at a geometrical ratio;
that each at some period of its life, during some season of the year,
during each generation or at intervals, has to struggle for life, and to
On the Origin of Species |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum: three-cornered hat jammed over his eyes and his
long sword thumping him upon the arms and head as
it swung this way and that. And there, also,
appeared General Cone, who had struck a rubber
rock headforemost and was so crumpled up that his
round body looked more like a bouncing-ball than
the form of a man.
Betsy laughed merrily at the strange sight and
Polychrome echoed her laughter. But Ozga was
grave and wondering, while Queen Ann became
angry at seeing the chief officers of the Army of
Tik-Tok of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Of that ne'er forgotten Summer,
He had brought his young wife homeward
From the land of the Dacotahs;
When the birds sang in the thickets,
And the streamlets laughed and glistened,
And the air was full of fragrance,
And the lovely Laughing Water
Said with voice that did not tremble,
"I will follow you, my husband!"
In the wigwam with Nokomis,
With those gloomy guests that watched her,
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