| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: In civilization Tarzan had found greed and selfishness and
cruelty far beyond that which he had known in his familiar,
savage jungle, and though civilization had given him his mate
and several friends whom he loved and admired, he never
had come to accept it as you and I who have known little or
nothing else; so it was with a sense of relief that he now
definitely abandoned it and all that it stood for, and went
forth into the jungle once again stripped to his loin cloth and
weapons.
The hunting knife of his father hung at his left hip, his bow
and his quiver of arrows were slung across his shoulders,
Tarzan the Untamed |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: felt something hairy and cologne-scented brushing my face.
If the room had suddenly been flooded with electric light,
I couldn't have seen more clearly the detestable
bearded countenance that I knew was bending over me.
I caught a handful of whiskers and pulled, shouting something.
The hand that held my shoulder was instantly at my throat.
The man became insane; he stood over me, choking me with one fist
and beating me in the face with the other, hissing and chuckling
and letting out a flood of abuse.
`So this is what she's up to when I'm away, is it?
Where is she, you nasty whelp, where is she? Under the bed,
My Antonia |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Phaedrus by Plato: Lysias himself here.
PHAEDRUS: Enough; I see that I have no hope of practising my art upon you.
But if I am to read, where would you please to sit?
SOCRATES: Let us turn aside and go by the Ilissus; we will sit down at
some quiet spot.
PHAEDRUS: I am fortunate in not having my sandals, and as you never have
any, I think that we may go along the brook and cool our feet in the water;
this will be the easiest way, and at midday and in the summer is far from
being unpleasant.
SOCRATES: Lead on, and look out for a place in which we can sit down.
PHAEDRUS: Do you see the tallest plane-tree in the distance?
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