| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: brave friend than later, fighting alone among enemies in defense
of my honor."
He took a step nearer. The warrior made a threatening gesture
with his sword close to the soft, smooth skin of the princess,
and Gahan halted.
"I cannot, Tara of Helium," he cried. "Think not ill of me that I
am weak--that I cannot see you die. Too great is my love for you,
daughter of Helium."
The Manatorian warrior, a derisive grin upon his lips, backed
steadily away. He had almost reached the doorway when Gahan saw
another warrior in the chamber toward which Tara was being
The Chessmen of Mars |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum: their stuffed comrade. One of the Scarecrow's
recitations was like this:
"What sound is so sweet
As the straw from the wheat
When it crunkles so tender and low?
It is yellow and bright,
So it gives me delight
To crunkle wherever I go.
"Sweet, fresh, golden Straw!
There is surely no flaw
In a stuffing so clean and compact.
The Tin Woodman of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: with my fingers, and constantly striving to interpret varieties
of size, shape, and style, and relationships of design.
After
a while I could vaguely guess at the nature of the bygone structure,
and at the designs which had once stretched over the vast surfaces
of the primal masonry. The perfect identity of the whole with
some of my dream-glimpses appalled and unnerved me.
This was
once a Cyclopean corridor thirty feet tall, paved with octagonal
blocks and solidly vaulted overhead. There would have been rooms
opening off on the right, and at the farther end one of those
Shadow out of Time |
