| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lily of the Valley by Honore de Balzac: effect as the sufferings of the early Christians, which strengthened
their faith and made God visible to them. In hearts that abound in
love are there not incessant longings for a desired object, to which
the glowing fire of our dreams gives higher value and a deeper tint?
Are we not conscious of instigations which give to the beloved
features the beauty of the ideal by inspiring them with thought? The
past, dwelt on in all its details becomes magnified; the future teems
with hope. When two hearts filled with these electric clouds meet each
other, their interview is like the welcome storm which revives the
earth and stimulates it with the swift lightnings of the thunderbolt.
How many tender pleasures came to me when I found these thoughts and
The Lily of the Valley |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: for here the rays of the sun, which was getting low in the
heavens, scarcely penetrated. As I could perceive no one I came
to the conclusion that I must have been deceived by my fancy. Or
perhaps it was some baboon that coughed, though it was strange
that a baboon should have come to such a low-lying spot where
there was nothing for it to eat.
The place was eerie, so much so that I bethought me of tales of
the ghosts whereby it was supposed to be haunted. Also, oddly
enough, of Anscombe's presentiment which he had fulfilled by
killing a Basuto. Look! There lay his grinning skull with some
patches of hair still on it, dragged away from the rest of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: dire need of him now. Tarzan's conscience was troubling him,
which accounted for the fact that he compared himself to a
weak, old woman, for the ape-man, reared in savagery and
inured to hardships and cruelty, disliked to admit any of the
gentler traits that in reality were his birthright.
The trail made a detour to the east of the village of the
Wamabos, and then returned to the wide elephant path nearer
to the river, where it continued in a southerly direction for
several miles. At last there came to the ears of the ape-man
a peculiar whirring, throbbing sound. For an instant he
paused, listening intently, "An aeroplane!" he muttered, and
Tarzan the Untamed |
