| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: to remain and prevent me from following. Then she turned toward me.
"John Carter," she cried, "for the last time I offer you the
love of Phaidor, daughter of the Holy Hekkador. Accept and your
princess shall be returned to the court of her grandfather, and you
shall live in peace and happiness. Refuse and the fate that my
father has threatened shall fall upon Dejah Thoris.
"You cannot save her now, for by this time they have reached a place
where even you may not follow. Refuse and naught can save you;
for, though the way to the last stronghold of the Holy Therns
The Warlord of Mars |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire.
The time is now propitious, as he guesses,
The meal is ended, she is bored and tired,
Endeavours to engage her in caresses
Which still are unreproved, if undesired.
Flushed and decided, he assaults at once;
Exploring hands encounter no defence; 240
His vanity requires no response,
And makes a welcome of indifference.
(And I Tiresias have foresuffered all
Enacted on this same divan or bed;
The Waste Land |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Animal Farm by George Orwell: whole, these projects were a failure. The attempt to tame the wild
creatures, for instance, broke down almost immediately. They continued to
behave very much as before, and when treated with generosity, simply took
advantage of it. The cat joined the Re-education Committee and was very
active in it for some days. She was seen one day sitting on a roof and
talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach. She was telling
them that all animals were now comrades and that any sparrow who chose
could come and perch on her paw; but the sparrows kept their distance.
The reading and writing classes, however, were a great success. By the
autumn almost every animal on the farm was literate in some degree.
As for the pigs, they could already read and write perfectly. The dogs
Animal Farm |
