| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: the state of things. It was certain that the Tartars had
actually invested Irkutsk, and that the three columns had
effected a junction. There was no doubt that the Emir
and Ivan Ogareff were before the capital.
But why did the Czar's courier exhibit such haste to get
there, now that the Imperial letter could no longer be given
by him to the Grand Duke, and when he did not even know
the contents of it? Alcide Jolivet and Blount could not
understand it any more than Nadia had done.
No one spoke of the past, except when Jolivet thought
it his duty to say to Michael, "We owe you some apology
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Paradise Lost by John Milton: Not in themselves, all their known virtue appears
Productive in herb, plant, and nobler birth
Of creatures animate with gradual life
Of growth, sense, reason, all summed up in Man.
With what delight could I have walked thee round,
If I could joy in aught, sweet interchange
Of hill, and valley, rivers, woods, and plains,
Now land, now sea and shores with forest crowned,
Rocks, dens, and caves! But I in none of these
Find place or refuge; and the more I see
Pleasures about me, so much more I feel
Paradise Lost |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson: And the house rose - a pyramid!
These were the days, our provost knows,
When forty streets and crescents rose,
The fruits of my creative noddle,
All more or less upon a model,
Neat and commodious, cheap and dry,
A perfect pleasure to the eye!
I found this quite a country quarter;
I leave it solid lath and mortar.
In all, I was the single actor -
And am this city's benefactor!
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