| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Last War: A World Set Free by H. G. Wells: middle of the nineteenth century, but the idea of a state,
planned as an electric-traction system is planned, without
reference to pre-existing apparatus, upon scientific lines, did
not take a very strong hold upon the popular imagination of the
world until the twentieth century. Then, the growing impatience
of the American people with the monstrous and socially paralysing
party systems that had sprung out of their absurd electoral
arrangements, led to the appearance of what came to be called the
'Modern State' movement, and a galaxy of brilliant writers, in
America, Europe, and the East, stirred up the world to the
thought of bolder rearrangements of social interaction, property,
The Last War: A World Set Free |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: finds a
pathway for his offispring.
Guard of our folk, Father of earth and heaven. The Gods possessed
the
wealth bestowing Agni.
5 Night and Dawn, changing each the other's colour, meeting
together
suckle one same Infant:
Golden between the heaven and earth he shineth. The Gods possessed
the
wealth bestowing Agni.
The Rig Veda |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the world I want."
As Clayton stooped to pick up his coat in the waiting
room his eyes fell on a telegraph blank lying face down
upon the floor. He stooped to pick it up, thinking it
might be a message of importance which some one had dropped.
He glanced at it hastily, and then suddenly he forgot his
coat, the approaching train--everything but that terrible
little piece of yellow paper in his hand. He read it twice
before he could fully grasp the terrific weight of meaning
that it bore to him.
When he had picked it up he had been an English nobleman,
The Return of Tarzan |
