| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: yoke-fellows are dejection and pain. Its riches is poverty; its
loftiness die lowest humiliation; and who shall tell the full
tale of its miseries, which Saint John the Divine hath shown me
in few words? For he saith, `The whole world lieth in
wickedness'; and, `Love not the world, neither the things that
are in the world. For all that is in the world is the lust of
the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. And
the world passeth away, and the lust thereof, but he that doeth
the will of God abideth for ever.' Seeking, then, this good will
of God, I have forsaken everything, and joined myself to those
who possess the same desire, and seek after the same God.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The People That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: fishes, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals of paleolithic times.
I knew that the thing that had attacked me was some sort of
pterodactyl which should have been extinct millions of years ago.
It was all that I needed to realize that Bowen had exaggerated
nothing in his manuscript.
Having disposed of my first foe, I set myself once more to
search for a landing-place near to the base of the cliffs
beyond which my party awaited me. I knew how anxious they
would be for word from me, and I was equally anxious to relieve
their minds and also to get them and our supplies well within
Caspak, so that we might set off about our business of finding
The People That Time Forgot |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: who really would have appeared tolerably handsome
in a large head-dress, looks with her smart chapeau as
masculine as a soldier.
MANLY
But remember, my dear sister, and I wish all my
fair country-women would recollect, that the only ex-
cuse a young lady can have for going extravagantly
into a fashion is because it makes her look extrava-
gantly handsome.--Ladies, I must wish you a good
morning.
CHARLOTTE
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