| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: The intentions as to reading, working, and learning,
which he had so precisely formulated only a few minutes earlier,
were suffering a curious collapse into a corner, he knew
not how.
"Well, it's only a bit of fun," he said to himself, faintly conscious
that to common sense there was something lacking, and still
more obviously something redundant in the nature of this girl
who had drawn him to her which made it necessary that he should
assert mere sportiveness on his part as his reason in seeking her--
something in her quite antipathetic to that side of him which had been
occupied with literary study and the magnificent Christminster dream.
Jude the Obscure |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: videbat, tamen committendum non putabat ut, pulsis hostibus, dici posset
eos ab se per fidem in conloquio circumventos. Postea quam in vulgus
militum elatum est qua arrogantia in conloquio Ariovistus usus omni Gallia
Romanis interdixisset, impetumque in nostros eius equites fecissent, eaque
res conloquium ut diremisset, multo maior alacritas studiumque pugnandi
maius exercitui iniectum est.
Biduo post Ariovistus ad Caesarem legatos misit: velle se de iis
rebus quae inter eos egi coeptae neque perfectae essent agere cum eo: uti
aut iterum conloquio diem constitueret aut, si id minus vellet, ex suis
legatis aliquem ad se mitteret. Conloquendi Caesari causa visa non est,
et eo magis quod pridie eius diei Germani retineri non potuerant quin tela
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum: follow her aunt. When she was halfway across the room there came
a great shriek from the wind, and the house shook so hard that she
lost her footing and sat down suddenly upon the floor.
Then a strange thing happened.
The house whirled around two or three times and rose slowly
through the air. Dorothy felt as if she were going up in a balloon.
The north and south winds met where the house stood, and made
it the exact center of the cyclone. In the middle of a cyclone
the air is generally still, but the great pressure of the wind on
every side of the house raised it up higher and higher, until it
was at the very top of the cyclone; and there it remained and was
The Wizard of Oz |
