| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: The sight must have filled the Mahars with awe and
consternation, for never had they seen the like of these
craft before. For a time they seemed unable to do aught
but gaze at the approaching fleet; but when the Mezops
opened on them with their muskets the reptiles swam
rapidly in the direction of the feluccas, evidently think-
ing that these would prove the easier to overcome. The
commander of the fleet permitted them to approach
within a hundred yards. Then he opened on them with
all the cannon that could be brought to bear, as well as
with the small arms of the sailors.
Pellucidar |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac: you to obey me." Eugenie bowed her head. "You affront me in all I hold
most dear. I will not see you again until you submit. Go to your
chamber. You will stay there till I give you permission to leave it.
Nanon will bring you bread and water. You hear me--go!"
Eugenie burst into tears and fled up to her mother. Grandet, after
marching two or three times round the garden in the snow without
heeding the cold, suddenly suspected that his daughter had gone to her
mother; only too happy to find her disobedient to his orders, he
climbed the stairs with the agility of a cat and appeared in Madame
Grandet's room just as she was stroking Eugenie's hair, while the
girl's face was hidden in her motherly bosom.
Eugenie Grandet |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: The time when my sunny hair
Shall with grass roots entwined be."
But cold--cold is that resting-place,
Shut out from joy and liberty,
And all who loved thy living face
Will shrink from it shudderingly,
"Not so. HERE the world is chill,
And sworn friends fall from me:
But THERE--they will own me still,
And prize my memory."
Farewell, then, all that love,
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