| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: of relief, but rather a sensation which Tarzan had never
expected to feel again and which he now disliked to admit
even to himself. It could not be possible that he, the jungle
bred, who had renounced forever the society of man to return
to his beloved beasts of the wilds, could be feeling anything
akin to regret at the departure of these two, or any slightest
loneliness now that they were gone. Lieutenant Harold Percy
Smith-Oldwick Tarzan had liked, but the woman whom he
had known as a German spy he had hated, though he never
had found it in his heart to slay her as he had sworn to slay
all Huns. He had attributed this weakness to the fact that
Tarzan the Untamed |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: thus been reassured as to the consequences of our rupture; but,
seeing me again in Paris, finding herself face to face with me,
pale as I was, she must have realized that I had not returned
without purpose, and she must have asked herself what that
purpose was.
If I had seen Marguerite unhappy, if, in revenging myself upon
her, I could have come to her aid, I should perhaps have forgiven
her, and certainly I should have never dreamt of doing her an
injury. But I found her apparently happy, some one else had
restored to her the luxury which I could not give her; her
breaking with me seemed to assume a character of the basest
Camille |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anthem by Ayn Rand: to all men; and the will of all men together is
good for all; and so all men must be happy.
Yet as we stand at night in the great hall,
removing our garments for sleep, we look
upon our brothers and we wonder. The heads
of our brothers are bowed. The eyes of our
brothers are dull, and never do they look
one another in the eyes. The shoulders
of our brothers are hunched, and their
muscles are drawn, as if their bodies were
shrinking and wished to shrink out of sight.
Anthem |
