| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The First Men In The Moon by H. G. Wells: back to me: the snowy desolation, the thawing of the air, the growth of"
the plants, our strange hopping and crawling among the rocks and
vegetation of the crater. All the distress of our frantic search for the
sphere returned to me. ... Finally the opening of the great lid that
covered the pit!
Then as I strained to trace our later movements down to our present
plight, the pain in my head became intolerable. I came to an
insurmountable barrier, an obstinate blank.
"Cavor!"
"Yes?"
"Where are we?
The First Men In The Moon |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: cubs."
"I will surely come," said Mowgli. "And when I come it will
be to lay out Shere Khan's hide upon the Council Rock. Do not
forget me! Tell them in the jungle never to forget me!"
The dawn was beginning to break when Mowgli went down the
hillside alone, to meet those mysterious things that are called
men.
Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack
As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled
Once, twice and again!
And a doe leaped up, and a doe leaped up
The Jungle Book |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac: best of Catholics; he simply prohibited himself from thinking of a
problem which he considered above the range of human thought. When the
rector heard him say that pantheism had been the religion of all great
minds he set him down as inclining to the doctrine of Pythagoras on
reincarnation.
Roubaud, who saw Madame Graslin for the first time, experienced a
violent sensation when he met her. Science revealed to him in her
expression, her attitude, in the ravages of her face, untold
sufferings both moral and physical, a nature of almost superhuman
force, great faculties which would support her under the most
conflicting trials; he detected all,--even the darkest corners of that
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