| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: his haunches next to him. Krag paced up and down with short, quick
steps, like an animal in a cage. The lake widened out more and more,
and the width of the stream increased in proportion, until they
seemed to themselves to be floating on the bosom of some broad,
flowing estuary.
Krag suddenly bent over and snatched off Gangnet's hat, crushing it
together in his hairy fist and throwing it far out into the stream.
"Why should you disguise yourself like a woman?" he asked with a
harsh guffaw - "Show Maskull Your face. Perhaps he has seen it
somewhere."
Gangnet did remind Maskull of someone, but he could not say of whom.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: THEY will take care not to outrun their income. THEY will
never be distressed for money. Well, much good may it do
them! And so, I suppose, they often talk of having Longbourn
when your father is dead. They look upon it as quite their own,
I dare say, whenever that happens."
"It was a subject which they could not mention before me."
"No; it would have been strange if they had; but I make no
doubt they often talk of it between themselves. Well, if they can
be easy with an estate that is not lawfully their own, so much the
better. _I_ should be ashamed of having one that was only
entailed on me."
Pride and Prejudice |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: I tried to point out these things to the men. Some of them felt
as I did about it. Others couldn't see it. So I learned darn
early in life that you can't reform 'em all.
I used to say to the complaining man:
"Look here, Bill; you're in no shape to work. Go home and lie
down for a couple of days. You wouldn't last here two hours in
your present shaky condition. You'd pinch the rolls with your
tongs and probably get your neck broke. That's why they won't let
you work. You can't work. So back to your bed, Bill, we will not
call them out to-day."
Bill usually went away cursing me as the friend of the "plutes"
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