| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Paradise Lost by John Milton: At thy right hand voluptuous, as beseems
Thy daughter and thy darling, without end."
Thus saying, from her side the fatal key,
Sad instrument of all our woe, she took;
And, towards the gate rolling her bestial train,
Forthwith the huge portcullis high up-drew,
Which, but herself, not all the Stygian Powers
Could once have moved; then in the key-hole turns
Th' intricate wards, and every bolt and bar
Of massy iron or solid rock with ease
Unfastens. On a sudden open fly,
Paradise Lost |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: When she touched the surface of the river she must
have been going twenty or thirty miles an hour. Her
momentum carried her well out into the stream, until
she came to a sudden halt at the end of the long line
which we had had the foresight to attach to her bow and
fasten to a large tree upon the bank.
The moment her progress was checked she promptly
capsized. Perry was overwhelmed. I didn't upbraid him,
nor remind him that I had "told him so."
His grief was so genuine and so apparent that I didn't
have the heart to reproach him, even were I inclined to
Pellucidar |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: No one knew me, barring a few of the bucks I'd met over Sitka way,
but I'd got most of their histories from Happy Jack.
"Everybody talking Chinook, not guessing that I could spit it
better than most; and principally two girls who'd run away from
Haine's Mission up the Lynn Canal. They were trim creatures, good
to the eye, and I kind of thought of casting that way; but they
were fresh as fresh-caught cod. Too much edge, you see. Being a
new-comer, they started to twist me, not knowing I gathered in
every word of Chinook they uttered.
"I never let on, but set to dancing with Tilly, and the more we
danced the more our hearts warmed to each other. 'Looking for a
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