| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce: Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.
He lived in a period prehistoric,
When all was absurd and phantasmagoric.
Born later, when Clio, celestial recorded,
Set down great events in succession and order,
He surely had seen nothing droll or fortuitous
In anything here but the lies that she threw at us.
Orpheus Bowen
PREJUDICE, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
PRELATE, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and
a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.
The Devil's Dictionary |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: rock bordering the Rio Grande. Somewhere out there was a
refuge. For he was a fugitive from justice, an outlaw.
This being an outlaw then meant eternal vigilance. No home, no
rest, no sleep, no content, no life worth the livingl He must
be a lone wolf or he must herd among men obnoxious to him. If
he worked for an honest living he still must hide his identity
and take risks of detection. If he did not work on some distant
outlying ranch, how was he to live? The idea of stealing was
repugnant to him. The future seemed gray and somber enough. And
he was twenty-three years old.
Why had this hard life been imposed upon him?
The Lone Star Ranger |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pathology of Lying, Etc. by William and Mary Healy: listlessness. ``I feel draggy and tired. I'm yawning all the
time.''
On the mental tests we found much irregularity. Tasks that were
done without effort were done fairly well. The girl was a good
reader and wrote a good hand. A long task in arithmetic was with
difficulty done correctly. When she was able to get hold of
herself she could do even our harder tests with accuracy. Her
failures were apparently from lack of concentration and
attention. Although she did some things well we felt obliged to
call her dull from physical causes, feeling that if she were in
better condition she might give a much better performance.
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