| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: I almost gave my life long ago for a thing
That has gone to dust now, stinging my eyes --
It is strange how often a heart must be broken
Before the years can make it wise.
The Long Hill
I must have passed the crest a while ago
And now I am going down --
Strange to have crossed the crest and not to know,
But the brambles were always catching the hem of my gown.
All the morning I thought how proud I should be
To stand there straight as a queen,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "You told me of mighty fortresses of stone which a
thousand men armed with big and little engines such as
these could hold forever against a million Sagoths.
"You told me of great canoes which moved across the
water without paddles, and which spat death from holes
in their sides.
"All these may now belong to the men of Pellucidar.
Why should we fear the Mahars?
"Let them breed! Let their numbers increase by thou-
sands. They will be helpless before the power of the
Emperor of Pellucidar.
Pellucidar |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herodias by Gustave Flaubert: protect himself; and if he were only an ordinary man, his murder was
of no importance.
Mannaeus stood beside his chair, and read his master's thoughts.
Vitellius beckoned him to his side and gave him an order for the
execution, to be transmitted to the soldiers placed on guard over the
dungeon. This execution would be a relief, he thought. In a few
moments all would be over!
But for once Mannaeus did not perform a commission satisfactorily. He
left the hall but soon returned, in a state of great perturbation.
During forty years he had exercised the functions of the public
executioner. It was he that had drowned Aristobulus, strangled
Herodias |
