| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the girl and grapple madly with the man who choked him
with one hand and rained mighty and merciless blows
upon his face and head with the other.
His captive sank to the ground, too weak from the
effects of nervous shock to escape, and with horror-
filled eyes watched the two who battled over her. She
saw that her would-be rescuer was young and strong
featured--all together a very fine specimen of manhood;
and to her great wonderment it was soon apparent that
he was no unequal match for the great mountain of
muscle that he fought.
The Monster Men |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum: "Don't know," said Button-Bright.
The thing gave a jump and turned half around, sitting in the same
place but with the other side of its body facing them. Instead of
being black, it was now pure white, with a face like that of a clown
in a circus and hair of a brilliant purple. The creature could bend
either way, and its white toes now curled the same way the black ones
on the other side had done.
"It has a face both front and back," whispered Dorothy, wonderingly;
"only there's no back at all, but two fronts."
Having made the turn, the being sat motionless as before, while Toto
barked louder at the white man than he had done at the black one.
The Road to Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: influit, incredibili lenitate, ita ut oculis in utram partem fluat
iudicari non possit. Id Helvetii ratibus ac lintribus iunctis transibant.
Ubi per exploratores Caesar certior factus est tres iam partes copiarum
Helvetios id flumen traduxisse, quartam vero partem citra flumen Ararim
reliquam esse, de tertia vigilia cum legionibus tribus e castris profectus
ad eam partem pervenit quae nondum flumen transierat. Eos impeditos et
inopinantes adgressus magnam partem eorum concidit; reliqui sese fugae
mandarunt atque in proximas silvas abdiderunt. Is pagus appellabatur
Tigurinus; nam omnis civitas Helvetia in quattuor pagos divisa est. Hic
pagus unus, cum domo exisset, patrum nostrorum memoria L. Cassium consulem
interfecerat et eius exercitum sub iugum miserat. Ita sive casu sive
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