| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: upon Mars as your conscious mind tells you that you are upon
Earth. You do not question the fact; neither did I.
I found myself lying prone upon a bed of yellowish,
mosslike vegetation which stretched around me in all directions
for interminable miles. I seemed to be lying in a deep, circular
basin, along the outer verge of which I could distinguish the
irregularities of low hills.
It was midday, the sun was shining full upon me and the
heat of it was rather intense upon my naked body, yet no
greater than would have been true under similar conditions on
an Arizona desert. Here and there were slight outcroppings
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: THALIARD.
The fifth, an hand environed with clouds,
Holding out gold that's by the touchstone tried;
The motto thus, 'Sic spectanda fides.'
[The Sixith Knight, Pericles, passes over.]
SIMONIDES.
And what's
The sixth and last, the which the knight himself
With such a graceful courtesy deliver'd?
THALIARD.
He seems to be a stranger; but his present is
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from McTeague by Frank Norris: was a success, that he could hope for nothing better. In
spite of the name, there was but one room. It was a corner
room on the second floor over the branch post-office, and
faced the street. McTeague made it do for a bedroom as well,
sleeping on the big bed-lounge against the wall opposite the
window. There was a washstand behind the screen in the
corner where he manufactured his moulds. In the round bay
window were his operating chair, his dental engine, and the
movable rack on which he laid out his instruments. Three
chairs, a bargain at the second-hand store, ranged
themselves against the wall with military precision
McTeague |
