| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Divine Comedy (translated by H.F. Cary) by Dante Alighieri: Throughout the mortal kingdom which it sway'd,
Falls in appearance dwindled and obscur'd,
If one with steady eye and perfect thought
On the third Caesar look; for to his hands,
The living Justice, in whose breath I move,
Committed glory, e'en into his hands,
To execute the vengeance of its wrath.
"Hear now and wonder at what next I tell.
After with Titus it was sent to wreak
Vengeance for vengeance of the ancient sin,
And, when the Lombard tooth, with fangs impure,
The Divine Comedy (translated by H.F. Cary) |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: and died many deaths.
By snatches she read her letter, a sentence or a fragment of a
sentence at a time as the light served. Luckily he had left a
case nearly full of matches, and one after another of them
dropped, charred and burned out, before she had finished reading.
After she had read it, her first love letter, she must needs go
over it again, to learn by heart the sweet phrases in which he
had wooed her. It was a commonplace note enough, far more neutral
than the strong, virile writer who had lacked the cunning to
transmit his feeling to ink and paper. But, after all, it was
from him, and it told the divine message, however haltingly. No
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne: a spring. The layer of water stored in the projectile at
the time of starting upon their journey occupied no less than
three feet in depth, and spread over a surface of not less than
fifty-four square feet. Besides, the cistern did not contain
one-fifth part of it; they must therefore give up this efficient
means of deadening the shock of arrival. Happily, Barbicane,
not content with employing water, had furnished the movable disc
with strong spring plugs, destined to lessen the shock against
the base after the breaking of the horizontal partitions.
These plugs still existed; they had only to readjust them and
replace the movable disc; every piece, easy to handle, as their
From the Earth to the Moon |
