| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: from dishonor. So long as Tarzan lived there was every
reason to expect succor. No man nor beast who roamed
the savage continent could boast the cunning and the
powers of her lord and master. To her, he was little
short of omnipotent in his native world--this world of
savage beasts and savage men. Tarzan would come, and
she would be rescued and avenged, of that she was
certain. She counted the days that must elapse before
he would return from Opar and discover what had
transpired during his absence. After that it would be
but a short time before he had surrounded the Arab
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake: LAUGHING SONG
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it;
When the meadows laugh with lively green,
And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene;
When Mary and Susan and Emily
With their sweet round mouths sing 'Ha ha he!'
When the painted birds laugh in the shade,
Where our table with cherries and nuts is spread:
Songs of Innocence and Experience |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: opened. The last stragglers went in with a rush, and the gate
was dropped.
"Come, just have a lock in here," called Annixter.
Hilma, descending from the carry-all and joined by Presley and
Harran, approached and looked over the high board fence.
"Oh, did you ever see anything like that?" she exclaimed.
The corral, a really large enclosure, had proved all too small
for the number of rabbits collected by the drive. Inside it was
a living, moving, leaping, breathing, twisting mass. The rabbits
were packed two, three, and four feet deep. They were in
constant movement; those beneath struggling to the top, those on
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