| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dream Life and Real Life by Olive Schreiner: when you think she's going to be his wife and the mother of his child? I
would like to put my arms round her and touch her once, if she would let
me. She is so beautiful, they say."
"Oh, I could never bear to see her; it would kill me. And they are so
happy together today! He is loving her so!"
"Don't you want him to be happy?" The older woman looked down at her.
"Have you never loved him, at all?"
The younger woman's face was covered with her hands. "Oh, it's so
terrible, so dark! and I shall go on living year after year, always in this
awful pain! Oh, if I could only die!"
The older woman stood looking into the fire; then slowly and measuredly she
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs:
With the joy of battle once roused within me, I took keen delight
in the fray, and that my fighting was noted by the Kaolians was
often evidenced by the shouts of applause directed at me.
If I sometimes seem to take too great pride in my fighting
ability, it must be remembered that fighting is my vocation.
If your vocation be shoeing horses, or painting pictures, and you
can do one or the other better than your fellows, then you are a
fool if you are not proud of your ability. And so I am very proud
that upon two planets no greater fighter has ever lived than John
The Warlord of Mars |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: And, Richard, do not frown upon my faults,
For I will henceforth be no more unconstant.
KING EDWARD.
Now, welcome more, and ten times more belov'd,
Than if thou never hadst deserv'd our hate.
GLOSTER.
Welcome, good Clarence; this is brother-like.
WARWICK.
O passing traitor, perjur'd and unjust!
KING EDWARD.
What, Warwick, wilt thou leave the town and fight,
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