| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs:
Presently his fingers ceased their play; his eyes popped wider than ever
as they fastened upon the door through which Thurid had disappeared.
The croon changed to a querulous muttering, and finally to an ugly growl.
Then the old man rose from the table, shaking his fist at the closed door.
Now he raised his voice, and his words came distinctly.
"Fool!" he muttered. "Think you that for your happiness Solan
will give up his life? If you escaped, Salensus Oll would
know that only through my connivance could you have succeeded.
The Warlord of Mars |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: [Exit Regan, led.]
Enter a Herald.
Come hither, herald. Let the trumpet sound,
And read out this.
Capt. Sound, trumpet! A trumpet sounds.
Her. (reads) 'If any man of quality or degree within the lists
of
the army will maintain upon Edmund, supposed Earl of
Gloucester,
that he is a manifold traitor, let him appear by the third
sound
King Lear |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Nana, Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille by Emile Zola: which went gliding upstairs through the ovenlike place where the air
was poisoned with musk, rubbing its back against the banisters and
keeping its tail exceedingly erect.
"Yes, to be sure!" said a woman hoarsely. "I thought they'd keep us
back tonight! What a nuisance they are with their calls!"
The end had come; the curtain had just fallen. There was a
veritable stampede on the staircase--its walls rang with
exclamations, and everyone was in a savage hurry to dress and be
off. As Count Muffat came down the last step or two he saw Nana and
the prince passing slowly along the passage. The young woman halted
and lowered her voice as she said with a smile:
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