| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: "Does he--does he--think--WHAT does he think! Tell him--tell
him--" Then he sunk down in his chair limp and weak,
and says, so as you could hardly hear him: "Go away--go away!"
The nigger looked scared and cleared out, and we all
felt--well, I don't know how we felt, but it was awful,
with the old man panting there, and his eyes set and looking
like a person that was dying. None of us could budge;
but Benny she slid around soft, with her tears running down,
and stood by his side, and nestled his old gray head
up against her and begun to stroke it and pet it with
her hands, and nodded to us to go away, and we done it,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche: which Hegel systematised and Richard Wagner has in the end set to
music). "Good-natured and spiteful"--such a juxtaposition,
preposterous in the case of every other people, is unfortunately
only too often justified in Germany one has only to live for a
while among Swabians to know this! The clumsiness of the German
scholar and his social distastefulness agree alarmingly well with
his physical rope-dancing and nimble boldness, of which all the
Gods have learnt to be afraid. If any one wishes to see the
"German soul" demonstrated ad oculos, let him only look at German
taste, at German arts and manners what boorish indifference to
"taste"! How the noblest and the commonest stand there in
Beyond Good and Evil |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Master of the World by Jules Verne: routes.
In the midst of this excitement, what action should I take
personally? Should I attempt to gain the shores of Navy Island, if we
indeed advanced that far? If I did not seize this chance, never after
what I had learned of his secrets, never would the Master of the
World restore me to liberty.
I suspected, however, that my flight was no longer possible. If I was
not confined within my cabin, I no longer remained unwatched. While
the captain retained his place at the helm, his assistant by my side
never removed his eyes from me. At the first movement, I should be
seized and locked within my room. For the present, my fate was
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