| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: He who held an "honour" or "edel" of land was bound to be
honourable; and he who held a "weorthig," or worthy, thereof, was
bound himself to be worthy. In like wise, he who had the right to
ride a horse, was expected to be chivalrous in all matters befitting
the hereditary ruler, who owed a sacred debt to a long line of
forefathers, as well as to the state in which he dwelt; all dignity,
courtesy, purity, self-restraint, devotion--such as they were
understood in those rough days--centred themselves round the idea of
the rider as the attributes of the man whose supposed duty, as well
as his supposed right, was to govern his fellow-men, by example, as
well as by law and force;--attributes which gathered themselves up
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson:
Treasure Island |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Roads of Destiny by O. Henry: that the country I spoke of was in South America--I must be careful,
my dear man; I have been in politics there, you know. But, even so--I
have played chess against its president with a set carved from the
nasal bones of the tapir--one of our native specimens of the order of
/perissodactyle ungulates/ inhabiting the Cordilleras--which was as
pretty ivory as you would care to see.
"But is was of romance and adventure and the ways of women that was I
going to tell you, and not of zoological animals.
"For fifteen years I was the ruling power behind old Sancho Benavides,
the Royal High Thumbscrew of the republic. You've seen his picture in
the papers--a mushy black man with whiskers like the notes on a Swiss
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