| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Melmoth Reconciled by Honore de Balzac: Everything was in order.
The place where the strong boxes had been bedded in sheet-iron was
just behind the little sanctum, where the cashier was busy. Doubtless
he was balancing his books. The open front gave a glimpse of a safe of
hammered iron, so enormously heavy (thanks to the science of the
modern inventor) that burglars could not carry it away. The door only
opened at the pleasure of those who knew its password. The letter-lock
was a warden who kept its own secret and could not be bribed; the
mysterious word was an ingenious realization of the "Open sesame!" in
the Arabian Nights. But even this was as nothing. A man might discover
the password; but unless he knew the lock's final secret, the ultima
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by Oscar Wilde: Some with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.
Some love too little, some too long,
Some sell, and others buy;
Some do the deed with many tears,
And some without a sigh:
For each man kills the thing he loves,
Yet each man does not die.
He does not die a death of shame
On a day of dark disgrace,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad: to make your hair stand on end."
He watched for the effect: Massy seemed dazed, un-
comprehending. He only passed the palm of his hand
on the coal-black wisps plastered across the top of his
head. In a tone suddenly changed to confidential au-
dacity Sterne hastened on.
"Remember that there's only six weeks left to
run . . ." The other was looking at him stonily . . .
"so anyhow you shall require a captain for the ship
before long."
Then only, as if that suggestion had scarified his flesh
End of the Tether |
