| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: rifts in the ice threatened to engulf us at the least misstep;
and from the north a slight breeze wafted to our nostrils an
unspeakable stench that almost choked us.
For another two hours we were occupied in traversing a few
hundred yards to the foot of the barrier.
Then, turning about the corner of a wall-like outcropping of
granite, we came upon a smooth area of two or three acres before
the base of the towering pile of ice and rock that had baffled us
for days, and before us beheld the dark and cavernous mouth of a cave.
The Warlord of Mars |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Louis Lambert by Honore de Balzac: fact, since this wandering tribe knew none of the ease enjoyed by a
community settled in a patriarchal home, their sorrows as pilgrims
inspired them with none but gloomy poems, majestic but blood-stained.
In the Hindoos, on the contrary, the spectacle of the rapid recoveries
of the natural world, and the prodigious effects of sunshine, which
they were the first to recognize, gave rise to happy images of
blissful love, to the worship of Fire and of the endless
personifications of reproductive force. These fine fancies are lacking
in the Book of the Hebrews. A constant need of self-preservation amid
all the dangers and the lands they traversed to reach the Promised
Land engendered their exclusive race-feeling and their hatred of all
Louis Lambert |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rezanov by Gertrude Atherton: so much, was a humiliating failure, and that I was
played with for six months by a people whom we
had regarded as a nation of monkeys. When my
health began to suffer from the long confinement
on shipboard--we had previously been fourteen
months at sea--and I asked to be permitted to
live on shore while my claims to an audience were
under consideration, I was removed with my suite
to a cage on a strip of land nearly surrounded with
water, where I had less liberty and exercise than on
shipboard. Finally, I had a ridiculous interview
Rezanov |
