| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne: "is your passport visaed?"
"Ah, it's you, is it, monsieur?" responded Passepartout.
"Thanks, yes, the passport is all right."
"And you are looking about you?"
"Yes; but we travel so fast that I seem to be journeying in a dream.
So this is Suez?"
"Yes."
"In Egypt?"
"Certainly, in Egypt."
"And in Africa?"
"In Africa."
Around the World in 80 Days |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mayflower Compact: as shall be thought most meete and convenient for the
Generall Good of the Colonie; unto which we promise
all due Submission and Obedience.
In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names
at Cape Cod the eleventh of November, in the Raigne of our
Sovereigne Lord, King James of England, France, and Ireland,
the eighteenth, and of Scotland, the fiftie-fourth,
Anno. Domini, 1620.
Mr. John Carver Mr. Stephen Hopkins
Mr. William Bradford Digery Priest
Mr. Edward Winslow Thomas Williams
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: but for a long time it did not act. I seemed to become more wakeful,
and myriads of horrible fancies began to crowd in upon my mind.
All of them connected with death, and vampires, with blood,
and pain, and trouble." Her husband involuntarily groaned
as she turned to him and said lovingly, "Do not fret, dear.
You must be brave and strong, and help me through the horrible task.
If you only knew what an effort it is to me to tell of this fearful
thing at all, you would understand how much I need your help.
Well, I saw I must try to help the medicine to its work with my will,
if it was to do me any good, so I resolutely set myself to sleep.
Sure enough sleep must soon have come to me, for I remember no more.
Dracula |
