| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: ceased their savage shouting. It was evident that they
had expected me to turn and flee at sight of them,
thus presenting that which they most enjoyed, a moving
human target at which to cast their spears.
"What do you here?" shouted one, and then as he recognized me,
"Ho! It is the slave who claims to be from another world--he
who escaped when the thag ran amuck within the amphitheater.
But why do you return, having once made good your escape?"
"I did not 'escape'," I replied. "I but ran away to avoid
the thag, as did others, and coming into a long passage
I became confused and lost my way in the foothills
At the Earth's Core |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson: On the rain-pool at my feet.
Should a leaflet come to land
Drifting near to where I stand,
Straight I'll board that tiny boat
Round the rain-pool sea to float.
Little thoughtful creatures sit
On the grassy coasts of it;
Little things with lovely eyes
See me sailing with surprise.
Some are clad in armour green--
(These have sure to battle been!)--
A Child's Garden of Verses |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: times that I had gone with you to America two years ago.
Take me with you now, Barney. We can send Lieutenant
Butzow to rescue the king, and before he has returned we
can be safe across the Serbian frontier."
The American shook his head.
"I got the king into this mess and I must get him out,"
he said. "He may deserve to be shot, but it is up to me
to prevent it, if I can. And there is your father to consider.
If Butzow rides to Blentz and rescues the king, it may be
difficult to get him back to Lustadt without the truth of
his identity and mine becoming known. With me there, the
The Mad King |
