| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "Where did these savage beasts come from?" I asked.
"Oh," she replied, "they have been here always. It is their
country."
"Do they not kill and eat your people?" I asked.
"Often, when we meet them by accident, and we are too few to
slay them, or when one goes too close to their camp. But
seldom do they hunt us, for they find what food they need
among the deer and wild cattle, and, too, we make them
gifts, for are we not intruders in their country? Really we
live upon good terms with them, though I should not care to
meet one were there not many spears in my party."
Lost Continent |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: of his own free will because after the doing of the deed it was he
who unwittingly suffered the murderer to escape, and it is well
that he should go.'
'He is a young hound to run such a quarry to earth, and in a
strange country,' said the Squire. 'Still I like his spirit and
wish him well. What would he of me?'
'Leave to bid farewell to your daughter. I know that his suit does
not please you and cannot wonder at it, and for my own part I think
it too early for him to set his fancy in the way of marriage. But
if he would see the maid it can do no harm, for such harm as there
is has been done already. Now for your answer.'
Montezuma's Daughter |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells: feeling. He had never realized before as he realized now this
peculiar quality of his own mind and the gulf into which it was
leading him. It came as an illuminating discovery.
He was a social animal. He had an instinctive disposition to
act according to the expectations of the people about him,
whether they were reasonable or congenial expectations or whether
they were not. That, he saw for the first time, had been the
ruling motive of his life; it was the clue to him. Man is not a
reasonable creature; he is a socially responsive creature trying
to be reasonable in spite of that fact. From the days in the
rectory nursery when Scrope had tried to be a good boy on the
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