| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: will die in childbirth is immeasurably greater than the probability that
the average male will die in battle.
There is, perhaps, no woman, whether she have borne children, or be merely
potentially a child-bearer, who could look down upon a battlefield covered
with slain, but the thought would rise in her, "So many mothers' sons! So
many bodies brought into the world to lie there! So many months of
weariness and pain while bones and muscles were shaped within; so many
hours of anguish and struggle that breath might be; so many baby mouths
drawing life at woman's breasts;--all this, that men might lie with glazed
eyeballs, and swollen bodies, and fixed, blue, unclosed mouths, and great
limbs tossed--this, that an acre of ground might be manured with human
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: visit the animal in the dressing room reserved for him at the
music hall, and had immediately interfered when he saw that the
savage beast meant serious mischief.
And after the money consideration, strong in the heart of the
Russian was the desire for revenge, which had been growing with
constant brooding over the failures and miseries of his life,
which he attributed to Tarzan; the latest, and by no means the
least, of which was Ajax's refusal to longer earn money for him.
The ape's refusal he traced directly to Tarzan, finally convincing
himself that the ape man had instructed the great anthropoid to
refuse to go upon the stage.
The Son of Tarzan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum: stood between two cliffs.
But not being experienced in such matters, the Gump did not judge his speed
correctly; and instead of coming to a stop upon the flat rock he missed it
by half the width of his body, breaking off both his right wings against the
sharp edge of the rock and then tumbling over and over down the cliff.
Our friends held on to the sofas as long as they could, but when the Gump
caught on a proJecting rock the Thing stopped suddenly -- bottom side up --
and all were immediately dumped out.
By good fortune they fell only a few feet; for underneath them was a monster
nest, built by a colony of Jackdaws in a hollow ledge of rock; so none of
them -- not even the Pumpkinhead -- was injured by the fall. For Jack found
The Marvelous Land of Oz |
