| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: "And for what crime are you imprisoned in the Bastile."
"Do you wish me to speak the truth?"
"Yes."
"Well, then, I don't know."
"Have you any suspicion of me, Rochefort?"
"No! on the honor of a gentleman; but I cannot be imprisoned
for the reason alleged; it is impossible."
"What reason?" asked D'Artagnan.
"For stealing."
"For stealing! you, Rochefort! you are laughing at me."
"I understand. You mean that this demands explanation, do
Twenty Years After |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: so set upon my desire and so strongly did my heartstrings pull me
towards her whose white robe now fluttered on the slope of the Park
Hill, that I never heeded the warning.
Well had it been for me if I had done so, and well for some who
were yet unborn. Then they had never known death, nor I the land
of exile, the taste of slavery, and the altar of sacrifice.
CHAPTER IV
THOMAS TELLS HIS LOVE
Having made the Spaniard as fast as I could, his arms being bound
to the tree behind him, and taking his sword with me, I began to
run hard after Lily and caught her not too soon, for in one more
Montezuma's Daughter |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: "I read somewhere that the sun's getting hotter every year," said Tom
genially. "It seems that pretty soon the earth's going to fall into the
sun--or wait a minute--it's just the opposite--the sun's getting colder
every year.
"Come outside," he suggested to Gatsby, "I'd like you to have a look at
the place."
I went with them out to the veranda. On the green Sound, stagnant in the
heat, one small sail crawled slowly toward the fresher sea. Gatsby's eyes
followed it momentarily; he raised his hand and pointed across the bay.
"I'm right across from you."
"So you are."
The Great Gatsby |
