| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare: BAVIAN.
Yes, Sir.
SCHOOLMASTER.
Quo usque tandem? Here is a woman wanting.
4. COUNTREYMAN.
We may goe whistle: all the fat's i'th fire.
SCHOOLMASTER.
We have,
As learned Authours utter, washd a Tile,
We have beene FATUUS, and laboured vainely.
2. COUNTREYMAN.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: took to all fours and crawled. It was easy to move here without noise, for
the ground was rocky and hard, and there was no brush.
Suddenly I fairly bumped into the hunter. Looking up, I saw that he had
halted only a few feet from the edge of the gorge where I had climbed out
in my escape. He was listening. There was not a sound save the dull roar of
rushing water.
Hiram slid forward a little, and rose cautiously to look over. I did the
same. When I saw the cave and the spring-hole I felt a catch in my throat.
But there was not a man in sight. Dick's captors had broken camp; they were
gone. The only thing left in the gorge to show they had ever been there was
a burned-out campfire.
The Young Forester |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anthem by Ayn Rand: escape from the Palace of Corrective Detention.
Not a hand moved in that hall, as we spoke,
nor an eye. Then we put the wires to the box,
and they all bent forward and sat still, watching.
And we stood still, our eyes upon the wire.
And slowly, slowly as a flush of blood,
a red flame trembled in the wire. Then the wire glowed.
But terror struck the men of the Council.
They leapt to their feet, they ran from the
table, and they stood pressed against the
wall, huddled together, seeking the warmth
Anthem |
