| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs: into the stream. For only an instant he hesitated weighing
his chances. Behind him lay almost certainly the horrid fate of
An-Tak; before him nothing worse than a comparatively painless
death by drowning. Holding his haversack above his head with one
hand he lowered his feet slowly over the edge of the narrow platform.
Almost immediately he felt the swirling of cold water about his
ankles, and then with a silent prayer he let himself drop gently
into the stream.
Great was Bradley's relief when he found the water no more
than waist deep and beneath his feet a firm, gravel bottom.
Feeling his way cautiously he moved downward with the current,
Out of Time's Abyss |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll: To help you in hunting the Snark.
"A dear uncle of mine (after whom I was named)
Remarked, when I bade him farewell--"
"Oh, skip your dear uncle!" the Bellman exclaimed,
As he angrily tingled his bell.
"He remarked to me then," said that mildest of men,
" 'If your Snark be a Snark, that is right:
Fetch it home by all means--you may serve it with greens,
And it's handy for striking a light.
" 'You may seek it with thimbles--and seek it with care;
You may hunt it with forks and hope;
The Hunting of the Snark |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: discharges of moonlight, which leaped into the opening thus made, and
showed me three girls in the prettiest flutter and disorder. It was
as though they had sprung out of the ground. I accosted them very
politely in my capacity of stranger, and requested to be told the
names of all manner of hills and woods and places that I did not wish
to know, and we stood together for a while and had an amusing little
talk. The wind, too, made himself of the party, brought the colour
into their faces, and gave them enough to do to repress their
drapery; and one of them, amid much giggling, had to pirouette round
and round upon her toes (as girls do) when some specially strong gust
had got the advantage over her. They were just high enough up in the
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