| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Land that Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: brute with thick lips and prognathous jaw stood at her shoulder.
He was talking loudly and gesticulating wildly. I was close enough
to hear his words, which were similar to the language of Ahm, though
much fuller, for there were many words I could not understand.
However I caught the gist of what he was saying--which in effect
was that he had found and captured this Galu, that she was his
and that he defied anyone to question his right of possession.
It appeared to me, as I afterward learned was the fact, that I was
witnessing the most primitive of marriage ceremonies. The assembled
members of the tribe looked on and listened in a sort of dull and
perfunctory apathy, for the speaker was by far the mightiest of the clan.
The Land that Time Forgot |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: riches,
yield us not an ample guerdon.
Far from the sun keep those who hate devotion, the godless,
prospering
in their vocation.
10 With wheelless chariots drive down him, O Maruts, who at
the feasts
of Gods regards the demons.
May he, though bathed in sweat, form empty wishes, who blames
his
sacred rite who toils to serve you.
The Rig Veda |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Coxon Fund by Henry James: her husband had been the second evening he failed to meet his
audience. She came to me to ascertain, but I couldn't satisfy her,
for in spite of my ingenuity I remained in ignorance. It wasn't
till much later that I found this had not been the case with Kent
Mulville, whose hope for the best never twirled the thumbs of him
more placidly than when he happened to know the worst. He had
known it on the occasion I speak of--that is immediately after. He
was impenetrable then, but ultimately confessed. What he confessed
was more than I shall now venture to make public. It was of course
familiar to me that Saltram was incapable of keeping the
engagements which, after their separation, he had entered into with
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