| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson:
Treasure Island |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: law, pointing a mailed finger at one who had been
seated close to De Leybourn.
All eyes turned in the direction that the rigid finger
of the outlaw indicated, and there indeed was a fear-
ful apparition of a man. With livid face he stood, lean-
ing for support against the table; his craven knees
wabbling beneath his fat carcass; while his lips were
drawn apart against his yellow teeth in a horrid grim-
ace of awful fear.
"If you recognize me not, Sir Roger," said Norman
of Torn, drily, "it is evident that your honored guest
The Outlaw of Torn |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Aeneid by Virgil: 'T is fate diverts our course, and fate we must obey.
Not far from hence, if I observ'd aright
The southing of the stars, and polar light,
Sicilia lies, whose hospitable shores
In safety we may reach with struggling oars."
Aeneas then replied: "Too sure I find
We strive in vain against the seas and wind:
Now shift your sails; what place can please me more
Than what you promise, the Sicilian shore,
Whose hallow'd earth Anchises' bones contains,
And where a prince of Trojan lineage reigns?"
Aeneid |
