| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: not give thanks?
Have ye considered the fire which ye strike?
Do ye produce the tree that gives it, or do we
produce it?
We have made it a memorial and a chattel for the
traveller of the waste?
Then celebrate the grand name of thy Lord!
So I will not swear by the positions of the stars; and,
verily, it is a grand oath if ye did but know--that,
verily, this is the honourable Koran- in the
laid-up Book!
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: was thick behind me. My suffering was intense. There seemed
but one thing to do, and that to choose the easier death
which confronted me, and so I moved on down the corridor
until the cold waters of Omean closed about me, and I swam
on through utter blackness toward--what?
The instinct of self-preservation is strong even when one,
unafraid and in the possession of his highest reasoning
faculties, knows that death--positive and unalterable--lies
just ahead. And so I swam slowly on, waiting for my head
to touch the top of the corridor, which would mean that I
had reached the limit of my flight and the point where I
The Gods of Mars |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Facino Cane by Honore de Balzac: I make complaint, for to disclose my name was to lay myself open to
the vengeance of my native city; I could appeal to no one for aid, I
feared Venice. The woman put spies about me to exploit my infirmity. I
spare you a tale of adventures worthy of Gil Blas.--Your Revolution
followed. For two whole years that creature kept me at the Bicetre as
a lunatic, then she gained admittance for me at the Blind Asylum;
there was no help for it, I went. I could not kill her; I could not
see; and I was so poor that I could not pay another arm.
"If only I had taken counsel with my jailer, Benedetto Carpi, before I
lost him, I might have known the exact position of my cell, I might
have found my way back to the Treasury and returned to Venice when
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