| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the Hairy One shuddered. "No, you will never escape
the Mahars."
It was a cheerful prospect. I asked Perry what he thought
about it; but he only shrugged his shoulders and continued
a longwinded prayer he had been at for some time.
He was wont to say that the only redeeming feature of our
captivity was the ample time it gave him for the improvisation
of prayers--it was becoming an obsession with him.
The Sagoths had begun to take notice of his habit
of declaiming throughout entire marches. One of them
asked him what he was saying--to whom he was talking.
At the Earth's Core |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Passionate Pilgrim by William Shakespeare: Pluck'd in the bud, and vaded in the spring!
Bright orient pearl, alack, too timely shaded!
Fair creature, kill'd too soon by death's sharp sting!
Like a green plum that hangs upon a tree,
And falls, through wind, before the fall should he.
I weep for thee, and yet no cause I have;
For why thou left'st me nothing in thy will:
And yet thou left'st me more than I did crave;
For why I craved nothing of thee still:
O yes, dear friend, I pardon crave of thee,
Thy discontent thou didst bequeath to me.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: We find, in short, such evidence of the slow and scarcely sensible mutation
of specific forms, as we have a just right to expect to find.
On the state of Development of Ancient Forms. -- There has been much
discussion whether recent forms are more highly developed than ancient. I
will not here enter on this subject, for naturalists have not as yet
defined to each other's satisfaction what is meant by high and low forms.
But in one particular sense the more recent forms must, on my theory, be
higher than the more ancient; for each new species is formed by having had
some advantage in the struggle for life over other and preceding forms. If
under a nearly similar climate, the eocene inhabitants of one quarter of
the world were put into competition with the existing inhabitants of the
On the Origin of Species |
