| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: "We built temples by habit and tradition," said Sir Richmond.
"But the impulse was losing its force. "
She looked up at the spire and then at him with a faintly
quizzical expression.
But he had his reply ready.
"We were beginning to feel our power over matter. We were
already very clever engineers. What interested us here wasn't
the old religion any more. We wanted to exercise and display
our power over stone. We made it into reeds and branches. We
squirted it up in all these spires and pinnacles. The priest
and his altar were just an excuse. Do you think people have
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: Sent from Avernus' ponds by Radamanth,
With howling ditties pester every wood.
The watery ladies and the lightfoot fawns,
And all the rabble of the woody Nymphs,
All trembling hide themselves in shady groves,
And shroud themselves in hideous hollow pits.
The boisterous Boreas thundreth forth revenge;
The stony rocks cry out on sharp revenge;
The thorny bush pronounceth dire revenge.
[Sound the alarm.]
Now, Corineius, stay and see revenge,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: league be broken up, and the country freed of these great
monarchs with their hosts? And thou well knowest, and hast
thyself seen, how all the princes of influence and power, one
alone excepted, are eager to enter into treaty with the Soldan."
"I acknowledge it," said the Templar; "he were blind that had not
seen this in their last deliberations. But lift yet thy mask an
inch higher, and tell me thy real reason for pressing upon the
Council that Northern Englishman, or Scot, or whatever you call
yonder Knight of the Leopard, to carry their proposals for a
treaty?"
"There was a policy in it," replied the Italian. "His character
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