| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: About the same hour, my grandfather was in his office at the
writing-table; and the room beginning to darken, he laid down
his pen and fell asleep. In a dream he saw the door open and
George Peebles come in, `reeling to and fro, and staggering
like a drunken man,' with water streaming from his head and
body to the floor. There it gathered into a wave which,
sweeping forward, submerged my grandfather. Well, no matter
how deep; versions vary; and at last he awoke, and behold it
was a dream! But it may be conceived how profoundly the
impression was written even on the mind of a man averse from
such ideas, when the news came of the wreck on Flotta and the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Paradise Lost by John Milton: To Padan-Aram, in the field of Luz
Dreaming by night under the open sky
And waking cried, This is the gate of Heaven.
Each stair mysteriously was meant, nor stood
There always, but drawn up to Heaven sometimes
Viewless; and underneath a bright sea flowed
Of jasper, or of liquid pearl, whereon
Who after came from earth, failing arrived
Wafted by Angels, or flew o'er the lake
Rapt in a chariot drawn by fiery steeds.
The stairs were then let down, whether to dare
Paradise Lost |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: its masculine strength, a love no less than the mother's
eyes proclaimed. He felt himself weakening in his resolve.
Nearby one of the ship's officers was shouting orders to a
flotilla of native boats that was approaching to lighter the
consignment of the steamer's cargo destined for this tiny post.
"When does the next steamer for England touch here?" the
boy asked.
"The Emanuel ought to be along most any time now,"
replied the officer. "I figgered we'd find her here,"
and he went on with his bellowing remarks to the dusty
horde drawing close to the steamer's side.
The Son of Tarzan |
