| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Man against the Sky by Edwin Arlington Robinson: The roses that had been his fall;
The Scarlet One, as you surmise,
Fled with him, coral, rouge, and all.
Priscilla, waiting, saw the change
Of twenty slow October moons;
And then she vanished, in her turn
To be forgotten, like old tunes.
So they were gone -- all three of them,
I should have said, and said no more,
Had not a face once on Broadway
Been one that I had seen before.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: looking at Sophia Vasilievna with sleepy eyes; "but he
over-stepped the mark. Oh, yes."
"And you? Do you believe in heredity?" asked Sophia Vasilievna,
turning to Nekhludoff, whose silence annoyed her. "In heredity?"
he asked. "No, I don't." At this moment his whole mind was taken
up by strange images that in some unaccountable way rose up in
his imagination. By the side of this strong and handsome Philip
he seemed at this minute to see the nude figure of Kolosoff as an
artist's model; with his stomach like a melon, his bald head, and
his arms without muscle, like pestles. In the same dim way the
limbs of Sophia Vasilievna, now covered with silks and velvets,
Resurrection |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: can play together."
"It is a Gomangani, " replied Teeka. "It will kill my balu.
Take it away, Tarzan."
Tarzan laughed. "It could not harm Pamba, the rat,"
he said. "It is but a little balu and very frightened.
Let Gazan play with it."
Teeka still was fearful, for with all their mighty
ferocity the great anthropoids are timid; but at last,
assured by her great confidence in Tarzan, she pushed
Gazan forward toward the little black boy. The small ape,
guided by instinct, drew back toward its mother, baring its
The Jungle Tales of Tarzan |
