| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: leading to the floors above and below. The three had evidently
left the floor by this avenue. That they had gone down and
not up I was sure from my knowledge of these ancient
buildings and the methods of the Warhoons.
I myself had once been a prisoner of the cruel hordes of
northern Warhoon, and the memory of the underground
dungeon in which I lay still is vivid in my memory. And so
I felt certain that Tars Tarkas lay in the dark pits beneath
some nearby building, and that in that direction I should find
the trail of the three warriors leading to his cell.
Nor was I wrong. At the bottom of the runway, or rather
The Gods of Mars |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: together - empty-handed, both of us.
The girl went out to the platform. When she saw me she moved aside,
and I stepped out beside her. Behind us the track curved sharply;
the early sunshine threw the train, in long black shadow, over the
hot earth. Forward somewhere they were hammering. The girl said
nothing, but her profile was strained and anxious.
"I - if you have lost anything," I began, "I wish you would let me
try to help. Not that my own success is anything to boast of."
She hardly glanced at me. It was not flattering. "I have not been
robbed, if that is what you mean," she replied quietly. "I am
- perplexed. That is all."
The Man in Lower Ten |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: My casket and my jewels; and bid Nicander
Bring me the satin coffer: lay the babe
Upon the pillow: hie thee, whiles I say
A priestly farewell to her: suddenly, woman.
[Exit Lychorida.]
SECOND SAILOR.
Sir, we have a chest beneath the hatches, caulked and bitumed
ready.
PERICLES.
I thank thee. Mariner, say what coast is this?
SECOND SAILOR.
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