| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Reason Discourse by Rene Descartes: which never strives to rise above the tree that sustains it, and which
frequently even returns downwards when it has reached the top; for it
seems to me that they also sink, in other words, render themselves less
wise than they would be if they gave up study, who, not contented with
knowing all that is intelligibly explained in their author, desire in
addition to find in him the solution of many difficulties of which he says
not a word, and never perhaps so much as thought. Their fashion of
philosophizing, however, is well suited to persons whose abilities fall
below mediocrity; for the obscurity of the distinctions and principles of
which they make use enables them to speak of all things with as much
confidence as if they really knew them, and to defend all that they say on
Reason Discourse |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Why should Leopold wish these papers? Of course, he
might merely have taken them that he might destroy them;
but something told Barney Custer that such was not the
case. And something, too, told him whither the king had
ridden and what he would do there when he arrived.
He ran back to the wardrobe. In it hung the peasant
attire that he had stolen from the line of the careless house
frau, and later wished upon his majesty the king. Barney
grinned as he recalled the royal disgust with which Leopold
had fingered the soiled garments. He scarce blamed him.
Looking further toward the back of the wardrobe, the
The Mad King |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: he would change his mind and run off into the jungle again, the
father went on ahead to the bungalow for horses and clothes.
My Dear met him at the gate, her eyes filled with questioning
and sorrow, for she saw that Meriem was not with him.
"Where is she?" she asked, her voice trembling. "Muviri told
me that she disobeyed your instructions and ran off into the
jungle after you had left them. Oh, John, I cannot bear to lose
her, too!" And Lady Greystoke broke down and wept, as she
pillowed her head upon the broad breast where so often before
she had found comfort in the great tragedies of her life.
Lord Greystoke raised her head and looked down into her
The Son of Tarzan |
