| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: takes control."
There was a flavour of popularized psychoanalysis about this,
and the doctor drew in the corners of his mouth and gave his
head a critical slant. "M'm." But this only made Sir Richmond
raise his voice and quicken his speech. "I want," he said, "a
good tonic. A pick-me-up, a stimulating harmless drug of some
sort. That's indicated anyhow. To begin with. Something to
pull me together, as people say. Bring me up to the scratch
again."
"I don't like the use of drugs," said the doctor.
The expectation of Sir Richmond's expression changed to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs: friendly interest, and I heard many words spoken in my
behalf, and demands were made that I not be harmed.
But now Buckingham interfered. He had no intention of being
robbed of his prey. Blustering and storming, he ordered the
people back to their huts, at the same time directing two of
his warriors to confine me in a dugout in one of the
trenches close to his own shelter.
Here they threw me upon the ground, binding my ankles
together and trussing them up to my wrists behind. There
they left me, lying upon my stomach--a most uncomfortable
and strained position, to which was added the pain where the
Lost Continent |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: Do not let us abuse the freedom of digression which we claim.
THEODORUS: Nay, Socrates, not until we have finished what we are about;
for you truly said that we belong to a brotherhood which is free, and are
not the servants of the argument; but the argument is our servant, and must
wait our leisure. Who is our judge? Or where is the spectator having any
right to censure or control us, as he might the poets?
SOCRATES: Then, as this is your wish, I will describe the leaders; for
there is no use in talking about the inferior sort. In the first place,
the lords of philosophy have never, from their youth upwards, known their
way to the Agora, or the dicastery, or the council, or any other political
assembly; they neither see nor hear the laws or decrees, as they are
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