| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: "Others also," said Bagheera, licking his lips and looking at
the monkey-dead on the terrace and round the tank.
"It is nothing, it is nothing, if thou art safe, oh, my pride
of all little frogs!" whimpered Baloo.
"Of that we shall judge later," said Bagheera, in a dry voice
that Mowgli did not at all like. "But here is Kaa to whom we owe
the battle and thou owest thy life. Thank him according to our
customs, Mowgli."
Mowgli turned and saw the great Python's head swaying a foot
above his own.
"So this is the manling," said Kaa. "Very soft is his skin,
The Jungle Book |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: but in the very blackness of it, already swallowed up as it were, gone too
close to be recalled, gone from me altogether.
"Give the mate a call," I said to the young man who stood at my elbow
as still as death. "And turn all hands up."
My tone had a borrowed loudness reverberated from the height of the land.
Several voices cried out together: "We are all on deck, sir."
Then stillness again, with the great shadow gliding closer,
towering higher, without a light, without a sound.
Such a hush had fallen on the ship that she might have been a bark
of the dead floating in slowly under the very gate of Erebus.
"My God! Where are we?"
The Secret Sharer |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: GLOSTER.
Brother, this is Sir John Montgomery,
Our trusty friend unless I be deceiv'd.
KING EDWARD.
Welcome, Sir John; but why come you in arms?
MONTGOMERY.
To help King Edward in his time of storm,
As every loyal subject ought to do.
KING EDWARD.
Thanks, good Montgomery; but we now forget
Our title to the crown, and only claim
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