| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: great extent; on the other hand, if both of the moons are in
the heavens at night the surface of the ground is brightly
illuminated.
Both of Mars' moons are vastly nearer her than is our
moon to Earth; the nearer moon being but about five thousand
miles distant, while the further is but little more than
fourteen thousand miles away, against the nearly one-quarter
million miles which separate us from our moon. The nearer
moon of Mars makes a complete revolution around the planet
in a little over seven and one-half hours, so that she may be
seen hurtling through the sky like some huge meteor two or
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: straps borrowed from the dry leaves of the neighbouring grasses,
all more or less dexterously tied together and cemented with silk.
This work of rustic architecture is never missing, even though it
be no more than a mere pad.
When she reaches maturity and is once settled, the Lycosa becomes
eminently domesticated. I have been living in close communion with
her for the last three years. I have installed her in large
earthen pans on the window-sills of my study and I have her daily
under my eyes. Well, it is very rarely that I happen on her
outside, a few inches from her hole, back to which she bolts at the
least alarm.
The Life of the Spider |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli: nevertheless, what he did contributed to the greatness of the Church,
which, after his death and the ruin of the duke, became the heir to
all his labours.
Pope Julius came afterwards and found the Church strong, possessing
all the Romagna, the barons of Rome reduced to impotence, and, through
the chastisements of Alexander, the factions wiped out; he also found
the way open to accumulate money in a manner such as had never been
practised before Alexander's time. Such things Julius not only
followed, but improved upon, and he intended to gain Bologna, to ruin
the Venetians, and to drive the French out of Italy. All of these
enterprises prospered with him, and so much the more to his credit,
The Prince |
