| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: will of Salensus Oll. The great ceremony must be omitted that no single
man may be kept from his place in the defenses other than the fifty that
custom demands shall witness the creation of a new queen in Okar.
"In a moment the thing shall have been done and we may return
to the battle, while she who is now the Princess of Helium looks
down from the queen's tower upon the annihilation of her former
countrymen and witnesses the greatness which is her husband's."
Then, turning to a courtier, he issued some command in a low voice.
The Warlord of Mars |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson: But right for a gate of the reef he silently headed the bark,
And wielding the single paddle with passionate sweep on sweep,
Drove her, the little fitted, forth on the open deep.
And fear, there where she sat, froze the woman to stone:
Not fear of the crazy boat and the weltering deep alone;
But a keener fear of the night, the dark, and the ghostly hour,
And the thing that drove the canoe with more than a mortal's power
And more than a mortal's boldness. For much she knew of the dead
That haunt and fish upon reefs, toiling, like men, for bread,
And traffic with human fishers, or slay them and take their ware,
Till the hour when the star of the dead (15) goes down, and the morning air
Ballads |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: He looked at the little gun and laughed ironically. "Sho! If y'u
should hit me with that and I should find it out I might get mad
at y'u."
"Did I say it was for you?" she said coldly; and again the shock
of joined eyes ended in drawn battle.
"Have y'u the nerve?" He looked her over, so dainty and so
resolute, so silken strong; and he knew he had his answer.
His smoldering eyes burned with desire to snatch her to him and
ride away into the hills. For he was a man who lived in his
sensations. He had won many women to their hurt, but it was the
joy of conflict that made the pursuit worth while to him; and
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