| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells: fight, but it undermined and betrayed and bought
them. It bought the world at last. And, finally, its
culminating stroke was the introduction of flying.
When the Council, in conflict with the workers in
some of its huge monopolies, did something flagrantly
illegal and that without even the ordinary civility of
bribery, the old Law, alarmed for the profits of its
complaisance, looked about it for weapons. But there
were no more armies, no fighting navies; the age of
Peace had' come. The only possible war ships were
the great steam vessels of the Council's Navigation
When the Sleeper Wakes |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: word from her, I would betray my country, I would betray my king,
I would betray my God. She asked me not to send the Protestants
of La Rochelle the assistance I promised them; I have not done
so. I broke my word, it is true; but what signifies that? I
obeyed my love; and have I not been richly paid for that
obedience? It was to that obedience I owe her portrait."
D'Artagnan was amazed to note by what fragile and unknown threads
the destinies of nations and the lives of men are suspended. He
was lost in these reflections when the goldsmith entered. He was
an Irishman--one of the most skillful of his craft, and who
himself confessed that he gained a hundred thousand livres a year
The Three Musketeers |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Child of Storm by H. Rider Haggard: And--anything else?
"Yes; very dangerous, and one who could turn like the wind and blow hot
and blow cold."
"Ah!" he said, thought a while, then added: "Well, what do I care how
she blows to others, so long as she blows hot to me."
"Well, Saduko, and does she blow hot for you?"
"Not altogether, Macumazahn." Another pause. "I think she blows rather
like the wind before a great storm."
"That is a biting wind, Saduko, and when we feel it we know that the
storm will follow."
"I dare say that the storm will follow, Inkoosi, for she was born in a
Child of Storm |
