| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Aesop's Fables by Aesop: seated at table all that was for their dinner was contained in a
very long-necked jar with a narrow mouth, in which the Fox could
not insert his snout, so all he could manage to do was to lick the
outside of the jar.
"I will not apologise for the dinner," said the Stork:
"One bad turn deserves another."
The Fox and the Mask
A Fox had by some means got into the store-room of a theatre.
Suddenly he observed a face glaring down on him and began to be
very frightened; but looking more closely he found it was only a
Mask such as actors use to put over their face. "Ah," said the
Aesop's Fables |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Vas Kor breakfasted on board. Then he emerged upon
the aerial dock, entered an elevator, and was borne quickly
to the street below, where he was soon engulfed by the early
morning throng of workers hastening to their daily duties.
Among them his warrior trappings were no more remarkable
than is a pair of trousers upon Broadway. All Martian men
are warriors, save those physically unable to bear arms.
The tradesman and his clerk clank with their martial
trappings as they pursue their vocations. The schoolboy,
coming into the world, as he does, almost adult from the
snowy shell that has encompassed his development for five
Thuvia, Maid of Mars |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: orange on the ground, and the rides were speckled with scarlet-
lipped sprouting acorns. They worked their way by their own
short cuts to the edge of Pound's Wood, and heard a horse's feet
just as they came to the beech where Ridley the keeper hangs up
the vermin. The poor little fluffy bodies dangled from the
branches - some perfectly good, but most of them dried to
twisted strips.
'Three more owls,' said Dan, counting. 'Two stoats, four jays,
and a kestrel. That's ten since last week. Ridley's a beast.'
'In my time this sort of tree bore heavier fruit.' Sir Richard
Dalyngridge reined up his grey horse, Swallow, in the ride
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