| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rinkitink In Oz by L. Frank Baum: to the palace to talk the matter over.
Zella was now crying because she had not sold her
honey and was unable to return to her parents on the
island of Regos, but the boy prince comforted her and
promised she should be protected until she could be
restored to her home. Rinkitink found Queen Cor's
purse, which she had had no time to take with her, and
gave Zella several gold pieces for the honey. Then Inga
ordered the palace servants to prepare a feast for all
the women and children of Pingaree and to prepare for
them beds in the great palace, which was large enough
Rinkitink In Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin: an immense distance from any continent, and where the
water is perfectly limpid. It is equally improbable that the
elevatory forces should have uplifted throughout the above
vast areas, innumerable great rocky banks within 20 to 30
fathoms, or 120 to 180 feet, of the surface of the sea, and
not one single point above that level; for where on the whole
surface of the globe can we find a single chain of mountains,
even a few hundred miles in length, with their many summits
rising within a few feet of a given level, and not one
pinnacle above it? If then the foundations, whence the atoll-
building corals sprang, were not formed of sediment, and if
The Voyage of the Beagle |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs: bridges behind her--in her groundless apprehension that she
might make a terrible mistake, she had made a worse one.
And then she told him all--told him the truth word by word,
without attempting to shield herself or condone her error.
"What can we do?" he asked. "You have admitted that you
love me. You know that I love you; but I do not know the
ethics of society by which you are governed. I shall leave the
decision to you, for you know best what will be for your
eventual welfare."
"I cannot tell him, Tarzan," she said. "He too, loves me,
and he is a good man. I could never face you nor any other
Tarzan of the Apes |
