| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: grew greater every moment. "On your brow I read despair --
your lips falter ere you announce some terrible tidings --
your hands tremble. Oh, my God! my God! what has happened?"
"Lord!" ejaculated the young princess, falling on her knees,
"have mercy on us!"
"Sir," said Chatillon, "if you bring bad tidings it will be
cruel in you to announce them to the queen."
Aramis went so close to Chatillon as almost to touch him.
"Sir," said he, with compressed lips and flashing eyes, "you
have not the presumption to instruct the Comte de la Fere
and myself what we ought to say here?"
Twenty Years After |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum: I will try very hard to do my duty, and I know the Forest people will
give me their sympathy and help."
"We will!" said the Fairy Queen, earnestly.
"We will!" cried the merry Ryls, laughing.
"We will!" shouted the crooked Knooks, scowling.
"We will!" exclaimed the sweet nymphs, proudly. But Necile said
nothing. She only folded Claus in her arms and kissed him tenderly.
"The world is big," continued the boy, turning again to his loyal
friends, "but men are everywhere. I shall begin my work near my
friends, so that if I meet with misfortune I can come to the Forest
for counsel or help."
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: in search of my friend Ja, we knew that we might meet
with people of some other island who would prove
unfriendly.
At last the tide turned. We weighed anchor. Slowly
we drifted down the great river toward the sea.
About us swarmed the mighty denizens of the prim-
eval deep--plesiosauri and ichthyosauria with all their
horrid, slimy cousins whose names were as the names of
aunts and uncles to Perry, but which I have never been
able to recall an hour after having heard them.
At last we were safely launched upon the journey to
Pellucidar |
