| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: ghostly, I discerned the figures of eight people--three females and
five men.
At the same instant, evidently startled by Woola's fierce cry,
they halted and looked about. Then, of a sudden, one of them, a
woman, held her arms out toward me, and even at that great distance
I could see that her lips moved--it was Dejah Thoris, my ever
beautiful and ever youthful Princess of Helium.
With her were Thuvia of Ptarth, Phaidor, daughter of Matai Shang,
and Thurid, and the Father of Therns, and the three lesser therns
The Warlord of Mars |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories by Alice Dunbar: more things than perfect French and courtly grace among fishermen
to surprise you. These are a wonderful people who live across
the Lake."
Annette was lolling in the hammock under the big catalpa-tree
some days later, when the gate opened, and Natalie's big
sun-bonnet appeared. Natalie herself was discovered blushing in
its dainty depths. She was only a little Creole seaside girl,
you must know, and very shy of the city demoiselles. Natalie's
patois was quite as different from Annette's French as it was
from the postmaster's English.
"Mees Annette," she began, peony-hued all over at her own
The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll: Still further inwardly may go,
And find Idea from Notion flow:
"And thus the chain, that sages sought,
Is to a glorious circle wrought,
For Notion hath its source in Thought."
So passed they on with even pace:
Yet gradually one might trace
A shadow growing on his face.
The Second Voice
THEY walked beside the wave-worn beach;
Her tongue was very apt to teach,
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