| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Time Machine by H. G. Wells: intelligence that have to meet a huge variety of needs and
dangers.
`So, as I see it, the Upper-world man had drifted towards his
feeble prettiness, and the Under-world to mere mechanical
industry. But that perfect state had lacked one thing even for
mechanical perfection--absolute permanency. Apparently as time
went on, the feeding of the Under-world, however it was effected,
had become disjointed. Mother Necessity, who had been staved off
for a few thousand years, came back again, and she began below.
The Under-world being in contact with machinery, which, however
perfect, still needs some little thought outside habit, had
The Time Machine |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: satisfactorily to sleep again. His vigil, however,
was for the once free from grief. He drowsily awaited
the morning in vague mental comfort; he had recurring
haphazard indolent glimpses of a protecting fact standing
guard just outside the portals of consciousness--the
fact that the great day was here. He rose early,
breakfasted well, and walked by the Embankment to the City,
where at ten he had a few words with Semple, and afterward
caused himself to be denied to ordinary callers.
He paced up and down the Board Room for the better part
of the ensuing two hours, luxuriating in the general sense
The Market-Place |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum: "And if you hired your services to some baron, you would be obliged to
wash dishes all day, or mend clothing, or herd cattle," said Berna.
"But I should travel all over the island," said the fairy, brightly,
"and that is what I long to do. I do not care to work."
"I fear a girl would not be allowed to travel alone," Seseley
remarked, after some further thought. "At least," she added, "I have
never heard of such a thing."
"No," said the fairy, rather bitterly, "your men are the ones that
roam abroad and have adventures of all kinds. Your women are poor,
weak creatures, I remember."
There was no denying this, so the three girls sat silent until
The Enchanted Island of Yew |
