| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs: toward the temple. With great care he draped the robe about him;
the bloody blotch that had covered the severed neck he arranged
about his own head. His haversack he rolled as tightly as
possible and stuffed beneath his coat over his breast. Then he
fell gently to the surface of the stream and lying upon his back
floated downward with the current and out into the open sunlight.
Through the weave of the cloth he could distinguish large objects.
He saw a Wieroo flap dismally above him; he saw the banks of the
stream float slowly past; he heard a sudden wail upon the right-
hand shore, and his heart stood still lest his ruse had been
discovered; but never by a move of a muscle did he betray that
Out of Time's Abyss |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Confessio Amantis by John Gower: Bot Daniel was wonder loth,
And seide: "Upon thi fomen alle,
Sire king, thi swevene mote falle;
And natheles touchende of this
I wol the tellen how it is, 2880
And what desese is to thee schape:
God wot if thou it schalt ascape.
The hihe tree, which thou hast sein
With lef and fruit so wel besein,
The which stod in the world amiddes,
So that the bestes and the briddes
Confessio Amantis |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: physician who objects to the entrance of women to his highly fenced
professional enclosure, would probably object yet more strenuously if it
were proposed to throw down the barriers of restraint and monetary charges,
which would result in the flooding of his profession by other males: while
the mechanic, who resists the entrance of woman into his especial field, is
invariably found even more persistently to oppose any attempt at entrance
on the part of other males, when he finds it possible to do so.
This opposition of the smaller type of male, to the entrance of woman into
the callings hitherto apportioned to himself, is sometimes taken as
implying the impossibility of fellowship and affection existing between the
men and women employed in common labour, that the professional jealousy of
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